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Amy Tan Quote: “Through trial with death, you discover your power. Through trial, you shed your mortal flesh, layer after layer, until you become who you are supposed to be.”

301. “Through trial with death, you discover your power. Through trial, you shed your mortal flesh, layer after layer, until you become who you are supposed to be.”

Amy Tan Quote: “Whenever others disapprove of you, you must disregard them and be the only one to judge your own decisions and actions.”

302. “Whenever others disapprove of you, you must disregard them and be the only one to judge your own decisions and actions.”

Amy Tan Quote: “Believe me, daughter, there is nothing worse than having your own family member out for revenge.”

303. “Believe me, daughter, there is nothing worse than having your own family member out for revenge.”

Amy Tan Quote: “See the gold metal I can now wear. I gave birth to your brothers and then your father gave me these two bracelets. Then I had you. And every few years, when I have a little extra money, I buy another bracelet. I know what I’m worth. They’re always twenty-four carats, all genuine.”

304. “See the gold metal I can now wear. I gave birth to your brothers and then your father gave me these two bracelets. Then I had you. And every few years, when I have a little extra money, I buy another bracelet. I know what I’m worth. They’re always twenty-four carats, all genuine.”

Amy Tan Quote: “What happened in Nanking, I couldn’t claim that as my tragedy. I was not affected. I was not killed.”

305. “What happened in Nanking, I couldn’t claim that as my tragedy. I was not affected. I was not killed.”

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.”

306. “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: “Once the story captures my senses, I am no longer conscious of the act of reading words. I am in the story.”

307. “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: “A person should consider how things begin. A particular beginning results in a particular end. I.”

308. “A person should consider how things begin. A particular beginning results in a particular end. I.”

Amy Tan Quote: “I feed myself with the old grief.”

309. “I feed myself with the old grief.”

Amy Tan Quote: “I remind myself that I know the difference between elusion and delusion. It is the separation between desire and belief. I know what separates the past from the present. What lies between then and now, it is but a moment, an easy thing to lose.”

310. “I remind myself that I know the difference between elusion and delusion. It is the separation between desire and belief. I know what separates the past from the present. What lies between then and now, it is but a moment, an easy thing to lose.”

Amy Tan Quote: “With imagined tragedy hovering over us, we became inseparable, two halves creating the whole: yin and yang.”

311. “With imagined tragedy hovering over us, we became inseparable, two halves creating the whole: yin and yang.”

Amy Tan Quote: “Confucius say a woman is worth a thousand words. Tell your wife she’s used up her total.”

312. “Confucius say a woman is worth a thousand words. Tell your wife she’s used up her total.”

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.”

313. “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: “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.”

314. “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: “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.”

315. “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: “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.”

316. “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: “Too much happiness, said the man who returned, always overflows into tears of sorrow.”

317. “Too much happiness, said the man who returned, always overflows into tears of sorrow.”

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?”

318. “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: “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.”

319. “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.”

320. “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: “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?”

321. “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: “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.”

322. “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: “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.”

323. “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: “Anyone can have original style,” he countered. “And yet no one truly does. We’re influenced by those who came before us, beginning with the painters thousands of years ago who imitated nature.”

324. “Anyone can have original style,” he countered. “And yet no one truly does. We’re influenced by those who came before us, beginning with the painters thousands of years ago who imitated nature.”

Amy Tan Quote: “I don’t have too many lines ingrained upon my face. I look rather pixieish. Sometimes I wish that as I get older my eyes would become lined and take on more character. It just looks like I haven’t suffered enough in my life.”

325. “I don’t have too many lines ingrained upon my face. I look rather pixieish. Sometimes I wish that as I get older my eyes would become lined and take on more character. It just looks like I haven’t suffered enough in my life.”

Amy Tan Quote: “Most of the girls were like me, the love children of suicides, singsong girls, and unmarried maidens.”

326. “Most of the girls were like me, the love children of suicides, singsong girls, and unmarried maidens.”

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.”

327. “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: “Probably jet lag.”

328. “Probably jet lag.”

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.”

329. “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: “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.”

330. “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: “But my main motivation is fear of regret.”

331. “But my main motivation is fear of regret.”

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.”

332. “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: “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.”

333. “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: “My mother named me Violet after a tiny flower she loved as a girl growing up in San Francisco, a city I have seen only in postcards. I grew to hate my name. The courtesans pronounced it like the Shanghainese word vyau-la – what you said when you wanted to get rid of something. “Vyau-la! Vyau-la!” greeted me everywhere.”

334. “My mother named me Violet after a tiny flower she loved as a girl growing up in San Francisco, a city I have seen only in postcards. I grew to hate my name. The courtesans pronounced it like the Shanghainese word vyau-la – what you said when you wanted to get rid of something. “Vyau-la! Vyau-la!” greeted me everywhere.”

Amy Tan Quote: “I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s – of course, he did -measuring discarded seeds with painstaking accuracy. The short answer: Songbirds prefer shorter, fatter unshelled sunflower seeds, more depth than length, because they contain more oil. They take half a second to judge the seeds, dropping the low-density ones, until they find a seed to their liking.”

335. “I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s – of course, he did -measuring discarded seeds with painstaking accuracy. The short answer: Songbirds prefer shorter, fatter unshelled sunflower seeds, more depth than length, because they contain more oil. They take half a second to judge the seeds, dropping the low-density ones, until they find a seed to their liking.”

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.”

336. “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: “Death was not necessarily a portal to the blank bliss of absolute nothingness. It was a deep dive into the unknown.”

337. “Death was not necessarily a portal to the blank bliss of absolute nothingness. It was a deep dive into the unknown.”

Amy Tan Quote: “How funny to see the foreigner in a farmer’s work hat, like a fish that has put on clothes. Around.”

338. “How funny to see the foreigner in a farmer’s work hat, like a fish that has put on clothes. Around.”

Amy Tan Quote: “Years before, she had dreamed of writing stories as a way to escape. She could revise her life and become someone else. She could be somewhere else. In her imagination she could change everything, herself, her mother, her past. But the idea of revising her life also frightened her, as if by imagination alone she were condemning what she did not like about herself or others. Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”

339. “Years before, she had dreamed of writing stories as a way to escape. She could revise her life and become someone else. She could be somewhere else. In her imagination she could change everything, herself, her mother, her past. But the idea of revising her life also frightened her, as if by imagination alone she were condemning what she did not like about herself or others. Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”

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.”

340. “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: “Hugging and being hugged by everybody in moments of sadness and triumph, because hugging is something that never came naturally to me, and now it does.”

341. “Hugging and being hugged by everybody in moments of sadness and triumph, because hugging is something that never came naturally to me, and now it does.”

Amy Tan Quote: “But my father’s faith, as I said, was absolute. Through God’s prayer he could be granted exactly what he wanted.”

342. “But my father’s faith, as I said, was absolute. Through God’s prayer he could be granted exactly what he wanted.”

Amy Tan Quote: “Kwan saw what she believed. I saw what I didn’t want to believe.”

343. “Kwan saw what she believed. I saw what I didn’t want to believe.”

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.”

344. “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: “Fate once made you American. Fate took it away.”

345. “Fate once made you American. Fate took it away.”

Amy Tan Quote: “I resented the easy supposition of all’s well that ends well.”

346. “I resented the easy supposition of all’s well that ends well.”

Amy Tan Quote: “It was sad and beautiful knowledge that a person cannot be found elsewhere but in his own spirit.”

347. “It was sad and beautiful knowledge that a person cannot be found elsewhere but in his own spirit.”

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.”

348. “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: “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.”

349. “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: “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.”

350. “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.”

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