250 Quotes by Arthur Golden

Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside them? Caves, where the eels like to live...when they find a cave they like, the wriggle around inside it for a while to be sure that...well, to be sure it's a nice cave, I suppose. And when they've made up their minds that it's comfortable, they mark the cave as their territory...by spitting.

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.

Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories. I've lived my life again just telling it to you.

Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

When I said these words, all the heat in my body seemed to rise to my face. I felt I might float up into the air, just like a piece of ash from a fire.

When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

It’s less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can’t stop from happening.