He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.
Interpretation
This quote expresses a deep emotional connection to someone, likening them to a memorable song that lingers in one's mind.
In this quote, Arthur Golden conveys the idea that certain people resonate with us on a profound level, akin to a beautiful song that we may not fully recall but continues to shape our thoughts and feelings. The imagery of a song highlights the emotional and poetic nature of love, illustrating how some individuals occupy our minds and hearts even when they are not physically present.
In practice
This quote would be perfect in a wedding speech to express how significant someone is to the speaker.
We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.
An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.
As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
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