250 Quotes by Arthur Golden

But really, would Yoroido seem any less exotic if I went back there again? As a young girl I believed my life would never have been a struggle if Mr. Tanaka hadn’t torn me away from my tipsy house. But now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.

Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.

If you aren’t the woman I think you are, then this isn’t the world I thought it was.

I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

Occasionally in life we come upon things we can’t understand, because we have never seen anything similar.

If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you’re sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.

I knew he noticed the tress, and the mud, and the children in the street, but I had no reason to believe he’d ever notice me.

And yet when his death happened only a few months later, I understood that he left me at the end of his long life just as naturally as the leaves fall from the trees.

His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn’t really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.