More quotes by Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

"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."
"If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was."
"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."
"The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains."