Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of…

Arthur Golden
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Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha] ✨ Arthur Golden (2008). Memoirs Of A Geisha, p.125, Random House
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