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

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

"The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains."

"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."

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

"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."