More quotes by Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

"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 live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him."
"If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was."
"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."
"Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all."
"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."