Quotes by Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. — Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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. — 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 tha — 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 e — 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. — Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it. — Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
It’s less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can’t stop from happening. — Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains. — Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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 horri — Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
And when I raised myself to look at the man who’d spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the st — 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 o — Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all. — Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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 l — Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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 fa — Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom. — Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Once when I was a little child of six or so, I watched a spider spinning its web in a corner of the house. Before the sp — Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the botto — Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away. — Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
To the eyes of the American soldiers who drove past, I looked no different from the women around me; and as I thought of — Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true. — Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha