Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
"At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it."
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"At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it."
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
"And when I raised myself to look at the man who’d spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall."
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
"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 of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world."
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
"The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains."
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
"It’s less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can’t stop from happening."
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
"Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it."
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
"Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future."
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
"Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one."
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
"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 course."
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
"Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you."
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
"If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was."
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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