Arthur Golden > Quotes

“think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Of course I was happy to sit and listen, but I understood perfectly well that the Chairman wasn't telling these things to me because he wanted me to know them. He was clearing them from his mind, just like draining water from a bucket. So I listened closely not to his words, but to the tone of his voice; because in the same way that sound rises as a bucket is emptied, I could hear the Chairman's voice softening as he spoke.”
― Arthur Golden

“nuisance,”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Dem Elend, das in uns wohnt, können wir natürlich nicht entfliehen.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Nitko od nas ne nalazi u ovome svijetu onoliko ljubaznosti koliko bi nam trebalo.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow-though I can't think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for anymore.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha