For 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.
Interpretation
The quote reflects a yearning for a more just and compassionate world, contrasting with harsh realities.
In this quote, Arthur Golden captures a fleeting moment of hope and imagination, envisioning a world vastly different from the one filled with unfairness and exploitation. It points to the desire for kindness and justice, particularly in the context of personal relationships and societal norms that often allow for the commodification of individuals, such as fathers selling their daughters. This momentary vision serves as a critique of existing societal injustices, evoking a longing for change.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about social justice at a community meeting.
We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.
An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.
As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.
I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
Song of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.
If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.
It might not be perfect, but the fundamental stance I adopted with regard to my home was to accept it, problems and all, because it was something I myself had chosen. If it had problems, these were almost certainly problems that had originated within me.
The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.
And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal advantage. It is enough to make a person lose heart sometimes. I often wish I lived on a Robinson Crusoe island.
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