Arthur Golden, Memoirs Of A Geisha

Quotes

• “I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fa...”
• “I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horri...”
• “I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to l...”
• “At the temple there is a poem called "Loss"carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them ou...”
• “We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something tha...”
• “And when I raised myself to look at the man who’d spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the st...”
• “Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing e...”
• “Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.”
• “The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”
• “Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.”
• “Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.”
• “If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.”
• “Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.”