Arthur Golden

Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand because we have never seen anything similar.

Now I understood the thing I´d overlooked;the point wasn´t to become a geisha but to be one. To become a geisha . . . well, that was hardly a purpose in life. But to be a geisha . . . I could see it now as a stepping-stone to something else.

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.