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

- Arthur Golden

I've lived my life again just telling it to you.

- Arthur Golden

My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them dr…

- Arthur Golden

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

- Arthur Golden

I fell into a sound sleep and dreamed that I was at a banquet back in Gion, talking with an elderly man who was explaining to me that his wife, whom …

- Arthur Golden

If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light to let my eye…

- Arthur Golden

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the th…

- Arthur Golden

I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think …

- Arthur Golden

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new cou…

- Arthur Golden