More quotes by 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."
"The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains."
"If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was."
"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."
"Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all."