Sayuri Nitta Quotes

“My name back then was Chiyo. I wouldn’t be known by my geisha name, Sayuri, until years later.”

“I sometimes lift the brocade cover on the mirror of my makeup stand, and have the briefest flicker of a thought that I may find her there in the glass, smirking at me.”

“I’d earned more in the past six months than both Hatsumomo and Pumpkin combined.”

“It struck me as odd that even though no one could have called her a beauty, Mr. Tanaka’s eyes were fixed on her like a rag on a hook.”

“Every time I caught a glimpse of myself in the glass of a shop, I felt I was someone to be taken seriously; not a girl anymore, but a young woman.”

“Every young geisha may be proud of her hairstyle at first, but she comes to hate it within three or four days.”