30 Kutipan Terbaik Novel Memoirs of a Geisha Karya Arthur Golden

26. “We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.”― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

27. “Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?”― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

28. “After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.”― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

29. “You 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 Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

30. “From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn’t there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I’d spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I’d never really tasted the things I’d eaten, or seen the places I’d been, because I’d thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. 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.”― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha