Memoirs of a Geisha Quotes
Narrator (Old Sayuri): [as Chiyo watches the Chairman leave with geisha] In that moment, I changed from a girl facing nothing but emptiness, to someone with purpose. I saw that to be a geisha could be a stepping stone to something else... a place in his world.
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Colonel Derricks: [stops Sayuri as she is exiting the hot spring] So, what is the protocol?
Sayuri Nitta: Excuse me?
Colonel Derricks: Suppose I wanted to see you in private.
Sayuri Nitta: I beg your pardon, colonel, but that is not a geisha's custom.
Colonel Derricks: [rubs Sayuri's shoulder] Don't be coy. I mean, if it's a matter of price, I'm sure...
Sayuri Nitta: If there were a price, you could never afford it. [exits spring]
Sayuri Nitta: Excuse me?
Colonel Derricks: Suppose I wanted to see you in private.
Sayuri Nitta: I beg your pardon, colonel, but that is not a geisha's custom.
Colonel Derricks: [rubs Sayuri's shoulder] Don't be coy. I mean, if it's a matter of price, I'm sure...
Sayuri Nitta: If there were a price, you could never afford it. [exits spring]
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Hatsumomo: [entertaining at the teahouse] Sayuri. A name as sweet as she is. I'm afraid these days even the common chambermaid can call herself a geisha. So, it's nice to see such a sincere young maiko, isn't it?
Mameha: [to Sayuri] Surely you would like to thank Hatsumomo for her gracious compliments.
Sayuri Nitta: [serving tea] There is so much I would like to say to Hatsumomo.
Hatsumomo: [laughing] Sometimes the smartest remark is silence
Sayuri Nitta: What better advise to follow than your own.
Mameha: [to Sayuri] Surely you would like to thank Hatsumomo for her gracious compliments.
Sayuri Nitta: [serving tea] There is so much I would like to say to Hatsumomo.
Hatsumomo: [laughing] Sometimes the smartest remark is silence
Sayuri Nitta: What better advise to follow than your own.
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Mameha: [speaking of Nobu] What is he to think? He safeguarded your life.
Sayuri Nitta: So now he owns it?
Sayuri Nitta: So now he owns it?
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Sayuri Narration: A story like mine should never be told. For my world is as forbidden as it is fragile. Without its mysteries it cannot survive. I certainly wasn't born to the life of a geisha. Like so much in my strange life, I was carried there by the current.
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