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.
Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.
We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male and female but both, two lovers in one body. The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leather covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hand like a fish.
We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.
I believe that at the center of the universe there dwells a loving spirit who longs for all thatβs best in all of creation, a spirit who knows the great potential of each planet as well as each person, and little by little will love us into being more than we ever dreamed possible. That loving spirit would rather die than give up on any one of us.
Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.
He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.
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