Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us
("Memoirs of a Geisha")
More Quotes from Arthur Golden:
I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.Arthur Golden
I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fall toward the earth. When I cut my lip and met Mr. Tanaka, when my mother died and I was cruelly sold, it was all like a stream that falls over rocky cliffs before it can reach the ocean. Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories.
Arthur Golden
Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
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Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together...
Arthur Golden
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
Arthur Golden
This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.
Arthur Golden
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