Arthur Golden

"I'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."

"If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was."

"A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world."

"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."