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“I was thanking him for… well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“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 book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together…”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“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 book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“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”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“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 book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

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

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“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.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“Nothing like work for getting over a disappointment.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha