01c. 1956 ADWhen I said these words, all the heat in my body seemed to rise to my face. I felt I might float up into the air, just like a piece of ash from a fire.Arthur Golden / quote ↗
02c. 1956 ADSometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.Arthur Golden / quote ↗
03c. 1956 ADI would've had an easier time if my emotions had all pulled me in the same direction, but it wasn't so simple. I'd been blown about like a scrap of paper in the wind.Arthur Golden / quote ↗
05c. 1956 ADAdversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.Arthur Golden / quote ↗
06c. 1956 ADSince the day I’d left Yoroido, I’d done nothing but worry that every turn of life’s wheel would bring yet another obstacle into my path; and of course, it was the worrying and the struggle that had always made life so vividly real to me.Arthur Golden / quote ↗
07c. 1956 ADHe stood with his two frail hands on his cane and his eyes closed, and breathed in deeply the scent of the past. "Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.Arthur Golden / quote ↗
08c. 1956 ADAnd 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 / quote ↗
