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Amy Tan Quote: “But sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient. “If you don’t hurry up and get me out of here, I’m disappearing for good,” it warned. “And they you’ll always be nothing.”
Amy Tan Quote: “In truth, this was a bad thing that Yan Chang had done, telling me my mother’s story. Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.”
Amy Tan Quote: “When there is great suffering, he said, everyone struggles the same. But when there is peace, no one wants to be the same. The rich no longer share. The less rich envy and steal.”
Amy Tan Quote: “This is how a daughter honors her mother. It is shou so deep it is in your bones. The pain of the flesh is nothing. The pain you must forget. Beacuse sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother before her. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I sat down and remembered a saying Old Aunt used to tell me whenever I complained that I had been wrongly accused: “Don’t strike a flea on a tiger’s head.” Don’t settle one trouble only to make a bigger one.”
Amy Tan Quote: “The elements were from my mother’s own version of organic chemistry. Each person is made of five elements, she told me.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Only Americans think they have rights,” Magic Gourd said. “What laws of heaven give you more rights and allow you to keep them? They are words on paper written by men who make them up and claim them. One day they can blow away, just like that.” She.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Religion teaches you that faith takes care of hope. All my hopes are gone, so why do I need faith anymore?”
Amy Tan Quote: “It felt like all the truth got whitewashed with fake happiness,” she said, “only it was not happy and it was worse than fake. It was dangerous.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Praise, I had learned, was temporary. What someone else controlled and doled out to you, and if you accepted it, and depended on it for happiness, you would become an emotional beggar, and suffer later when it was withdrawn.”
Amy Tan Quote: “But you can’t stay in the dark for so long. Something inside of you starts to fade and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I remember all these things. And tonight, on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, I also remember what I asked the Moon Lady so long ago. I wished to be found.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I looked at her and saw she was crying. And I also began to cry again, that this was our fate, to live like two turtles seeing the watery world together from the bottom of the little pond.”
Amy Tan Quote: “This is beauty, and this is beauty, and you are beauty, and love is beauty and we are beauty. We are divine, unchanged by time.”
Amy Tan Quote: “But my main motivation is fear of regret. I worry that if I didn’t go, one day I’d look back and wonder, What if I had?”
Amy Tan Quote: “Most of the girls were like me, the love children of suicides, singsong girls, and unmarried maidens.”
Amy Tan Quote: “And once you reached the top, you would be able to see everything and feel such happiness it would be enough to never have worries in your life ever again.”
Amy Tan Quote: “What happened in Nanking, I couldn’t claim that as my tragedy. I was not affected. I was not killed.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I realized I am self-centered, that I’m used to thinking about me first. But I also realized that you tend to think about you second. It’s as though I had permission from you to be less responsible. I’m not saying it’s your fault. But you have to learn to take back, grab it when it’s offered. Don’t fight it. Don’t get all tense thinking it’s complicated. Just take it, and if you want to be polite, say thank you.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance I had carried around like my portable vanity with its broken mirror.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Sometimes I feel like I’m a pair of eyes and ears, and I’m just trying to stay safe and make sense of what’s happening. I don’t want pain. I don’t want to die. I don’t want to see other people around me die. But I don’t have anything left inside me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it’s to know what’s possible to want.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Kwan saw what she believed. I saw what I didn’t want to believe.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I know what to avoid, what to worry about. I’m like those kids who live with gunfire going off around them. I don’t want pain. I don’t want to die. I don’t want to see other people around me die. But I don’t have anything left inside me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it’s to know what’s possible to want.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I think about our two faces. I think about my intentions. Which one is American? Which one is Chinese? Which one is better? If you show one, you must always sacrifice the other.”
Amy Tan Quote: “How funny to see the foreigner in a farmer’s work hat, like a fish that has put on clothes. Around.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I threw my head back and smiled proudly to myself. And then I draped the large embroidered red scarf over my face and covered these thoughts up. But underneath the scarf I still knew who I was. I made a promise to myself: I would always remember my parents’ wishes, but I would never forget myself.”
Amy Tan Quote: “She didn’t understand people who thrived on argument and being right all the time. Her mother was that way, and what did that get her? Nothing but unhappiness, dissatisfaction, and anger.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Remember that envy is one of mankind’s greatest flaws. It leads to recklessness in the one who envies and possessiveness in the one who has you by his side.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Probably jet lag.”

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Amy Tan Quote: “When something that violent hits you, you can’t help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can’t trust anybody to save you – not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again?”
Amy Tan Quote: “I asked myself, What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person? And then I saw the curtains blowing wildly, and outside rain was falling harder, causing everyone to scurry and shout. I smiled. And then I realized it was the first time I could see the power of the wing. I couldn’t see the wind itself, but I could see it carried the water that filled the rivers and shaped the countryside. It caused men to yelp and dance.”
Amy Tan Quote: “But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beginning. And I remember everything that happened that day because it has happened many times in my life. The same innocence, trust, and restlessness, the wonder, fear, and loneliness. How I lost myself. I remember all these things. And tonight, on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, I also remember what I asked the Moon Lady so long ago. I wished to be found.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Turn around then and lean against that boulder with your bottom facing me. I’ll enter you from behind. Are you damp yet?” In.”
Amy Tan Quote: “But your thoughts and emotions after death are no different from what they were when you were alive, I suppose. You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Death was not necessarily a portal to the blank bliss of absolute nothingness. It was a deep dive into the unknown.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Once the story captures my senses, I am no longer conscious of the act of reading words. I am in the story.”
Amy Tan Quote: “In a crowd of Caucasians, two Chinese people are already like family.”
Amy Tan Quote: “And so fate – if you can call it that – changed course over the rainforest canopy, and kindnesses and miracles poured like quenching rain after a drought. Such is the nature of happy endings.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Actually, I’m hoping we might have that. A commitment through time, past, present, future... marriage.”
Amy Tan Quote: “You can’t have luck when someone else has skills.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I want us to love each other so deeply we ache with the fullness of it.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Japanese chase-away juice.” And.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Pero no puedes permanecer en la oscuridad durante mucho tiempo. Algo dentro de ti empieza a desvanecerse y entonces te vuelves como una persona hambrienta, desesperadamente ansiosa de luz.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Ruth believed Wendy made her life more sparkly, but today was not a good time for sparkles.”
Amy Tan Quote: “But why didn’t I flood in the same way? Why was their happiness tenfold what I felt? Did I lack the proper connection between the senses and the heart? And then I realized that this was my habit. To hold back my feelings.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Her mastery of the language was a blissful expression of the spirit to her, like playing a musical instrument.”
Amy Tan Quote: “My thinking is this: Her original mother, she did what she must. I, her in-between mother, I did what I must. That Japanese couple, they also did what they must. One day, this little girl will grow up, and she will be doing what she must. So you see, we all do what we must.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Confucius say a woman is worth a thousand words. Tell your wife she’s used up her total.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Fear, I think, is the worst element of religions of all kinds. It is used to justify more fear, as well as hatred, lack of compassion, intolerance, and war.”
Amy Tan Quote: “She didn’t even pause to think. She simply said in a way that made it clear there was no more to the story: “Your father is not my first husband. You are not those babies.”
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