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."
"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."
"I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world."
"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."