Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many o... - Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

"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 fall toward the earth. When I cut my lip and met Mr. Tanaka, when my mother died and I was cruelly sold, it was all like a stream that falls over rocky cliffs before it can reach the ocean. Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories."

"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."

"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."

"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."