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

"Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one."

"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 horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world."

"Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one."

"At the temple there is a poem called "Loss"carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it."

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