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Amy Tan quotes: So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost? So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?
Amy Tan quotes: We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate.
Amy Tan quotes: I now lived in an invisible place made of my own dwindling breath, and because no one else could see it, they could not yank me out of it. I now lived in an invisible place made of my own dwindling breath, and because no one else could see it, they could not yank me out of it.
Amy Tan quotes: I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture. I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.
Amy Tan quotes: in a crowd of Caucasians, two Chinese people are already like family in a crowd of Caucasians, two Chinese people are already like family
Amy Tan quotes: Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling. Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.'
And now all she can do is watch it falling.
Amy Tan quotes: Lack of clarity is a writer's truth. Lack of clarity is a writer's truth.
Amy Tan quotes: When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he's thinking of pulling up roots. When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he's thinking of pulling up roots.
Amy Tan quotes: We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.-Suyuan We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.
-Suyuan
Amy Tan quotes: But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to But I don't have anything left inside of 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 quotes: Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
Amy Tan quotes: Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden. Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.
Amy Tan quotes: When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one? When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?
Amy Tan quotes: God, life changes faster than you think. God, life changes faster than you think.
Amy Tan quotes: You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light. You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.
Amy Tan quotes: Forever did not mean what it once had. Forever was what changed inevitably over time. Forever did not mean what it once had. Forever was what changed inevitably over time.
Amy Tan quotes: I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix? I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?
Amy Tan quotes: Hardships can harden even the best person. Hardships can harden even the best person.
Amy Tan quotes: For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me. For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.
Amy Tan quotes: bad, how likely is it to come bad, how likely is it to come
Amy Tan quotes: The Doppler Effect of Communication": There is always distortion between what a speaker says and what a listener wants it to mean. "The The Doppler Effect of Communication": There is always distortion between what a speaker says and what a listener wants it to mean. "The
Amy Tan quotes: My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female. My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.
Amy Tan quotes: But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo
Amy Tan quotes: Why do you think you are missing something you never had? Why do you think you are missing something you never had?
Amy Tan quotes: When the anesthesia of love wears off,you suffer the pain of consequence. When the anesthesia of love wears off,
you suffer the pain of consequence.
Amy Tan quotes: Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love? Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?
Amy Tan quotes: And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction. And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.
Amy Tan quotes: Fate changes when you change your clothes. Fate changes when you change your clothes.
Amy Tan quotes: I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them. I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.
Amy Tan quotes: I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place. I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.
Amy Tan quotes: You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again. You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.
Amy Tan quotes: Chaos is the penance for leisure. Chaos is the penance for leisure.
Amy Tan quotes: In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward. In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.
Amy Tan quotes: I won't be what I'm not.-Jing-mei I won't be what I'm not.
-Jing-mei
Amy Tan quotes: Why does love end so quickly and hatred last without end? Why does love end so quickly and hatred last without end?
Amy Tan quotes: I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
Amy Tan quotes: I have always known a thing before it happens. I have always known a thing before it happens.
Amy Tan quotes: In this matter, you should not concern yourself for my sake. In this matter, you should not concern yourself for my sake.
Amy Tan quotes: And all that talk about the breakup being good for us- who am I trying to fool? I'm cut loose, untethered, not belonging to anything or anybody. And all that talk about the breakup being good for us- who am I trying to fool? I'm cut loose, untethered, not belonging to anything or anybody.
Amy Tan quotes: After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember? After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
Amy Tan quotes: Fate once made you American. Fate took it away. Fate once made you American. Fate took it away.
Amy Tan quotes: The life we receive is not always what we choose. The life we receive is not always what we choose.
Amy Tan quotes: I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away. I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.
Amy Tan quotes: In the years that followed, I failed her so many times, each time asserting my own will, my right to fall short of expectations. In the years that followed, I failed her so many times, each time asserting my own will, my right to fall short of expectations.
Amy Tan quotes: The moving cliff gave us the feeling we had to look behind us to know what lay ahead. The moving cliff gave us the feeling we had to look behind us to know what lay ahead.
Amy Tan quotes: Kiss, a pat on the rump, and a deep inhalation of my scent, as if he and I were dogs. Kiss, a pat on the rump, and a deep inhalation of my scent, as if he and I were dogs.
Amy Tan quotes: Our meeting each other could not possibly be as random as two leaves from two trees being blown together. Our meeting each other could not possibly be as random as two leaves from two trees being blown together.
Amy Tan quotes: We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what was said, while my mother heard more. We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what was said, while my mother heard more.
Amy Tan quotes: vampire hours of rest between dawn and noon. vampire hours of rest between dawn and noon.
Amy Tan quotes: I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.
Amy Tan quotes: back as a mud-smashing back as a mud-smashing
Amy Tan quotes: my room, and to rub his scent off me. my room, and to rub his scent off me.
Amy Tan quotes: Or maybe he would turn to religion. Many Americans did so when faced with heartache and hardship. Or maybe he would turn to religion. Many Americans did so when faced with heartache and hardship.
Amy Tan quotes: Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true? Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?
Amy Tan quotes: Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
Amy Tan quotes: After a while, I hurt so much I didn't feel any difference. After a while, I hurt so much I didn't feel any difference.
Amy Tan quotes: Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy.
Amy Tan quotes: People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind. People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind.
Amy Tan quotes: A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use. A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use.
Amy Tan quotes: you showed me who I truly am. You did not remove my doubts. You forced me to see how I waver. you showed me who I truly am. You did not remove my doubts. You forced me to see how I waver.
Amy Tan quotes: But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.-Jing-mei But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.
-Jing-mei
Amy Tan quotes: I'm not saying fate happens without blame. but when fate turns out well, everyone should forget the bad road that got us here. I'm not saying fate happens without blame. but when fate turns out well, everyone should forget the bad road that got us here.
Amy Tan quotes: Our love would be solace, companionship, and the mending of wounds. Our love would be solace, companionship, and the mending of wounds.
Amy Tan quotes: I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely. I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.
Amy Tan quotes: With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more. With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
Amy Tan quotes: But it was the love of a ghost. Arms that encircled but did not touch. A bowl full of rice but without my appetite to eat it. No hunger. No But it was the love of a ghost. Arms that encircled but did not touch. A bowl full of rice but without my appetite to eat it. No hunger. No fullness.
Amy Tan quotes: Never show a weapon before you have to use it Never show a weapon before you have to use it
Amy Tan quotes: A painting was a translation of the language of my heart. A painting was a translation of the language of my heart.
Amy Tan quotes: When you touch a man's nostalgia, he is yours. When you touch a man's nostalgia, he is yours.
Amy Tan quotes: Auntie Yang is not hard of hearing. She is hard of listening. Auntie Yang is not hard of hearing. She is hard of listening.
Amy Tan quotes: Being able to restrain my emotions isn't a great victory - it's the pitiful proof of lost love. Being able to restrain my emotions isn't a great victory - it's the pitiful proof of lost love.
Amy Tan quotes: I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression. I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
Amy Tan quotes: And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song. And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.
Amy Tan quotes: I resented the easy supposition of all's well that ends well. I resented the easy supposition of all's well that ends well.
Amy Tan quotes: But how can anyone truly understand another's suffering unless he has felt the wound being made and the moment trust died? But how can anyone truly understand another's suffering unless he has felt the wound being made and the moment trust died?
Amy Tan quotes: We listened patiently to Lester, words skittering out of his mouth like cartoon dogs on fresh-waxed linoleum, frantically going nowhere. We listened patiently to Lester, words skittering out of his mouth like cartoon dogs on fresh-waxed linoleum, frantically going nowhere.
Amy Tan quotes: Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear? Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?
Amy Tan quotes: I want us to love each other so deeply we ache with the fullness of it. I want us to love each other so deeply we ache with the fullness of it.
Amy Tan quotes: Believe me, daughter, there is nothing worse than having your own family member out for revenge. Believe me, daughter, there is nothing worse than having your own family member out for revenge.
Amy Tan quotes: I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations. - Two Kinds I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations. - Two Kinds
Amy Tan quotes: Your only shame is to have shame. Your only shame is to have shame.
Amy Tan quotes: The things one had to do in life sometimes had nothing to do with what was fun or convenient. The things one had to do in life sometimes had nothing to do with what was fun or convenient.
Amy Tan quotes: I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba. I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.
Amy Tan quotes: What was worse, we asked among ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness? What was worse, we asked among ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness?
Amy Tan quotes: To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing.-Jing-mei To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing.
-Jing-mei
Amy Tan quotes: A moment is not the same as time. A moment is not the same as time.
Amy Tan quotes: Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking. Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.
Amy Tan quotes: The most perfect replica of the most perfect woman in all eternity. The most perfect replica of the most perfect woman in all eternity.
Amy Tan quotes: Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different. Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.
Amy Tan quotes: It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life. It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
Amy Tan quotes: If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry. If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.
Amy Tan quotes: I was returning with myself whole and unbroken - limbs, mind, and spirit. I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance I was returning with myself whole and unbroken - limbs, mind, and spirit. I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance
Amy Tan quotes: How can I argue with someone who makes no sense? How can I argue with someone who makes no sense?
Amy Tan quotes: just like my mother, and if I just like my mother, and if I
Amy Tan quotes: Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain. Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.
Amy Tan quotes: Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart? Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?
Amy Tan quotes: You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know. You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.
Amy Tan quotes: But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.-Ying Ying But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.
-Ying Ying
Amy Tan quotes: I imagine a hundred Chinese Icaruses, molding wings out of earwax. You can't stop people from wishing. I imagine a hundred Chinese Icaruses, molding wings out of earwax. You can't stop people from wishing.
Amy Tan quotes: How can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites? How can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

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