"If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was."
- Arthur Golden
"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. "
"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."
"Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one."
"Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future."
"Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it."
"It’s less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can’t stop from happening."
"The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains."
"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 ..."
"For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell thei..."