Best quotes from The American Diary of a Japanese Girl

I delight in personifying everything as a gentleman.

What a superb development she had in body! Her chest was abundant, her shoulders gracefully commanding. Her rather large rump, however, did not show to advantage in waving dress. Japs prefer a small one.

Dream is no dream without silliness which is akin to poetry.

I smiled happily to the sunlight whose autumnal yellow flakes—how yellow they were!—fell upon my arm stretched to pluck a chrysanthemum.

My eyes could express more than my English uttered in Nippon voice. My gestures helped to make my meaning plain.

I fancied the reason why their hats were eternally glued to their heads was because their hair was never in first-rate order for exhibition.

I must remain an Oriental girl, like a cherry blossom smiling softly in the Spring moonlight.