Arthur Golden: Thing

“Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.”

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

“Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.”

“Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about.
[Mameha]”

“Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.”

“Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.”

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

“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.”

“We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.”