We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.
Arthur GoldenTags: happiness-choices
When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
Arthur GoldenTags: destiny
Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
Arthur GoldenTags: memories
I fell into a sound sleep and dreamed that I was at a banquet back in Gion, talking with an elderly man who was explaining to me that his wife, whom he'd cared for deeply, wasn't really dead because the pleasure of their time together lived on inside him.
Arthur GoldenWaiting 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]
We can never flee the misery that is within us.
Arthur GoldenYou cannot say to the sun, 'More sun,' or to the rain, 'Less rain.' To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet, to learn kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little girl with more courage than she knew, would find her prayers were answered, can that not be called happiness? After all these are not the memoirs of an empress, nor of a queen. These are memoirs of another kind.
Arthur GoldenThe very idea!" he said, with another big laugh. "You, growing up in a dump like Yoroido. That's like making tea in a bucket!
Arthur GoldenIt was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
Arthur GoldenEven stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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