250 Quotes by Arthur Golden

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 is beauty and goodness in the world.

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it

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

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.

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.

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 their daughters.

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.