Was life nothing more
Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable? Arthur Golden
Memories Of A Geisha
Sadness was a very
Sadness was a very heavy thing. Arthur Golden
I went back to
I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them. Arthur Golden
If a few minutes
If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain. Arthur Golden
We none of us
We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should. Arthur Golden
At that moment, beauty
At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. Arthur Golden
I don’t like things
I don’t like things held up before me that I cannot have. Arthur Golden
How many times already
How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn’t heal? Arthur Golden
From this experience, I
From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn’t there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I’d spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I’d never really tasted the … Read more
His face was very
His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn’t really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from … Read more