Arthur Golden Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fall toward the earth. When I cut my lip and met Mr. Tanaka, when my mother died and I was cruelly sold, it was all like a stream that falls over rocky cliffs before it can reach the ocean. Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories. Memoirs of a Geisha

2. If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. Memoirs of a Geisha

3. It’s less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can’t stop from happening. Memoirs of a Geisha

4. When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom. Memoirs of a Geisha

5. And when I raised myself to look at the man who’d spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall. Memoirs of a Geisha

6. For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.

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

8. I don't misjudge people. If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. Memoirs of a Geisha

9. The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains. Memoirs of a Geisha