Quotes by : Arthur Golden

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should....

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....

I long ago developed a very practical smile, which I call my "Noh smile" because it resembles a Noh mask....

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise....

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

Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories. I've lived my life again just....

Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes....

Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself....