If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
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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.
Arthur GoldenFor 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 GoldenA 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.
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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.
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It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
Arthur GoldenI'm not sure this will make sense to you but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different direction so that I no longer faced backward toward the past but forward toward the future. And now the question confronting me was this: What would the future be
Arthur GoldenPerhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it
Arthur GoldenWhen someone who's starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings to it?
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And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.
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