More quotes by Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

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