250 Quotes by Arthur Golden

Even stone can be worn down with enough rain

Sometimes we go through the worst time by imaging how the world would be if our dreams come true.

Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and adaptable; you can see that from the shape of her ears.

I would've had an easier time if my emotions had all pulled me in the same direction, but it wasn't so simple. I'd been blown about like a scrap of paper in the wind.

A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.

Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a thorn bush near the pond. By the time I clawed my way out I was mad enough to bite through wood. If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

Kakve god bile naše muke i naše pobede, kako god ih mi propratili, sve one vrlo brzo izblede, kao mastilo na papiru.

Mlade devojke uvek u srcu nose svakojake nerazumne nade. Nade su kao ukras za kosu. Devojke žele da nose previše ukrasa. Kad ostare, izgledaju glupo ako nose čak i samo jedan.

And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.