Sisters in Yellow Quotes

“Simply by being yellow, they held a special power, giving us courage and comfort.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Sisters in Yellow

“You look at our phones and make us write down where we’re going—it’s insane. We’ve been going along with it because you go crazy when you’re pissed. But seriously”
― Mieko Kawakami, Sisters in Yellow

“The only reason the two of them could have it easy”
― Mieko Kawakami, Sisters in Yellow

“All the loneliness”
― Mieko Kawakami, Sisters in Yellow

“While Tokyo was lively and carefree with Christmas and the end of the century”
― Mieko Kawakami, Sisters in Yellow

“Computers are the next thing”
― Mieko Kawakami, Sisters in Yellow

“Really. If you use your brain and body to earn cash”
― Mieko Kawakami, Sisters in Yellow

“But I couldn’t. Everything I’d been bottling up since I started this job”
― Mieko Kawakami, Sisters in Yellow

“I had to get Lemon back on track somehow”
― Mieko Kawakami, Sisters in Yellow

“never came up with any concrete plans. In the moment”
― Mieko Kawakami, Sisters in Yellow

“Marriage was probably the same”
― Mieko Kawakami, Sisters in Yellow

“Now all she talks about is the real meaning of life”
― Mieko Kawakami, Sisters in Yellow

“guess it felt like they’d found the secret to adulthood”
― Mieko Kawakami, Sisters in Yellow

“Yeah. People like Kimiko”
― Mieko Kawakami, Sisters in Yellow

“know I shouldn’t be saying this to you two”
― Mieko Kawakami, Sisters in Yellow

“Nothing makes sense anymore. The world is just crazy. I feel like I’m living in a manga.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Sisters in Yellow

“The take for the day was ¥263,500—it would’ve taken four months of working at the restaurant for me to make that much.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Sisters in Yellow

“I mean”
― Mieko Kawakami, Sisters in Yellow