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