Arthur Golden: Likeness

“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.”

“This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.”

“He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.”

“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.”

“Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.”

“Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.”

“Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.”

“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”

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

“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.”

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

“Nothing like work for getting over a disappointment.”

“All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.”