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"If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was."
— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)
— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)
"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. "
— Arthur Golden
— Arthur Golden
"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. Page 105"
— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)
— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)
"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. "
— Arthur Golden
— Arthur Golden
"A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence. "
— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)
— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)
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""Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and adaptable; you can see that from the shape of her ears."
Memoirs of a Geisha"
— Arthur Golden
Memoirs of a Geisha"
— Arthur Golden
"Pumpkin, please listen to me, I wouldn't ask this of you if I had any other alternative. But I don't want to go back to being a maid all my life, and that's just what will happen if Hatsumomo has her way. She won't stop until she has me like a cockroach under her foot. I mean, she'll squash me if you don't help me to scurry away!"
— Arthur Golden
— Arthur Golden
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