Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remi... - Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

"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 stone wall."

"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."

"We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course."

"Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future."

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