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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

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. — Amy Tan

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

We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others. — Amy Tan

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten. — Amy Tan

All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way. — Amy Tan

This is beauty ... and you are beauty, and love is beauty and we are beauty. We are divine, unchanged by time. — Amy Tan

Lack of clarity is a writer's truth. — Amy Tan

When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he's thinking of pulling up roots. — Amy Tan

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

There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path. — Amy Tan

Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden. — Amy Tan

How funny to see the foreigner in a farmer's work hat, like a fish that has put on clothes. Around — Amy Tan

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

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

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. — Amy Tan

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

Since I'm not dead yet I can talk back. — Amy Tan

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me. — Amy Tan

I am ashamed she is ashamed. Because she is my daughter and I am proud of her, and I am her mother but she is not proud of me. — Amy Tan

bad, how likely is it to come — Amy Tan

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

He has always been politely indifferent. But what's the Chinese word that means indifferent because you can't see any differences? — Amy Tan

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

I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was. — Amy Tan

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house. — Amy Tan

Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love? — Amy Tan

I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received. — Amy Tan

I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place. — Amy Tan

You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again. — Amy Tan

But my father's faith, as I said, was absolute. Through God's prayer he could be granted exactly what he wanted. — Amy Tan

Chaos is the penance for leisure. — Amy Tan

If someone offers to take your burden, you need to know he is serious, not just being polite and kind. Polite and kind do not last. — Amy Tan

With hope, a mind is always free. — Amy Tan

I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions I have ever felt and they are now stored in my intuition as a writer. — Amy Tan

I won't be what I'm not.
-Jing-mei — Amy Tan

The only thing certain in times of great uncertainty is that people will behave with great strength or weakness, and with very little else in between. — Amy Tan

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success. — Amy Tan

Lies spread faster than you can catch them. — Amy Tan

Your life is what you see in front of you.
-An-mei — Amy Tan

It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want. — Amy Tan

It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different. — Amy Tan

What use for? asks my mother, jiggling the table with her hand. You put something else on top, everything fall down. — Amy Tan

Fate once made you American. Fate took it away. — Amy Tan

I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away. — Amy Tan

He simply translated what was in LuLing's heart: her better intentions, her hopes. — Amy Tan

All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me.
-Ying Ying — Amy Tan

Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment. — Amy Tan

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone. — Amy Tan

Why did I need to see someone else's bad luck? To feel glad it was not mine? To scare myself into thinking it still might be? — Amy Tan

We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what was said, while my mother heard more. — Amy Tan

When you lose your face ... , it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it. — Amy Tan

he kissed me with earnestness, banging his lips against my teeth and covering me with saliva from nose to chin. — Amy Tan

Could you wrap your arms around me to keep me warm? — Amy Tan

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day. — Amy Tan

glowered, and she returned — Amy Tan

I resented the easy supposition of all's well that ends well. — Amy Tan

But how can anyone truly understand another's suffering unless he has felt the wound being made and the moment trust died? — Amy Tan

We listened patiently to Lester, words skittering out of his mouth like cartoon dogs on fresh-waxed linoleum, frantically going nowhere. — Amy Tan

Japanese chase-away juice." And — Amy Tan

I hope you don't suffer forever from keeping love from your heart — Amy Tan

Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear? — Amy Tan

Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! — Amy Tan

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward. — Amy Tan

Being able to restrain my emotions isn't a great victory - it's the pitiful proof of lost love. — Amy Tan

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me. — Amy Tan

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life. — Amy Tan

When you touch a man's nostalgia, he is yours. — Amy Tan

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

Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so. — Amy Tan

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds. — Amy Tan

Later they will remember those moments with you. But they are not memories of you, but the feeling they were immortal because you made them gods. — Amy Tan

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

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently? — Amy Tan

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.
-An-mei — Amy Tan

I ask myself, How can I relax? How can I let go of everything that's happened? You need complete trust to do that. — Amy Tan

Those were the reasons we both knew how deep love was, the shared pain that would outlast any pain we caused each other. — Amy Tan

Too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow. — Amy Tan

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

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

I did not lose myself all at once. — Amy Tan

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

A moment is not the same as time. — Amy Tan

I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance I had carried around like my portable vanity with its broken mirror. — Amy Tan

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. — Amy Tan

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice. — Amy Tan

We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. — Amy Tan

The things one had to do in life sometimes had nothing to do with what was fun or convenient. — Amy Tan

Your only shame is to have shame. — Amy Tan

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

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking. — Amy Tan

I want us to love each other so deeply we ache with the fullness of it. — Amy Tan

My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel. — Amy Tan

Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. — Amy Tan

What is a secret wish?" "It is what you want but cannot ask. — Amy Tan

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression. — Amy Tan

A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin. — Amy Tan

You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with. — Amy Tan

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person. — Amy Tan

And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song. — Amy Tan