He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.
Interpretation
This quote expresses a deep emotional connection to someone, likening them to a memorable song that lingers in one's mind.
In this quote, Arthur Golden conveys the idea that certain people resonate with us on a profound level, akin to a beautiful song that we may not fully recall but continues to shape our thoughts and feelings. The imagery of a song highlights the emotional and poetic nature of love, illustrating how some individuals occupy our minds and hearts even when they are not physically present.
In practice
This quote would be perfect in a wedding speech to express how significant someone is to the speaker.
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.
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.
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
I want to be with my best friend. My best friend, my wife. Who could ask for anything more?
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within yourself, dear one, and with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days... The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.
I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and Love flooded my soul.
But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.
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