"To the eyes of the American soldiers who drove past, I looked no different from the women around me; and as I thought of it, who could say I was any different? If you no longer have leaves, or bark, o..."
- Arthur Golden
"Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true."
"Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it"
"I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world."
"And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy."
"At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy."
"A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world."
"When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife."
"Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories. I've lived my life again just telling it to you."
"Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside them? Caves, where the eels like to live...when they find a cave they like, the wriggle..."