After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember? — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“This is beauty...and you are beauty, and love is beauty and we are beauty. We are divine, unchanged by time.” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Forever did not mean what it once had. Forever was what changed inevitably over time.” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Seeing her this last time, I threw myself on her body. And she opened her eyes slowly. I was not scared. I… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“The moment is altered as soon as I try to capture it, so for me, it’s impossible.” How true, I thought. Moments… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“In two years' time, my scar became pale and shinny and I had no memory of my mother. That is the way… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Free time was the most precious time, when you should be doing what you loved, or at least slowing down enough to… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“A few times I invited Ba to visit me from the World of Yin. But other yin friends tell me he is… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Memory, in fact, gives you no choice over which moments you can erase, and it is annoyingly persistent in retaining the most… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“There was never the right time for me to declare we should be together for the rest of our lives when you… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So,… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the… — Amy Tan Copy Share
Shanghainese people are good negotiators, they're very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that - very competitive. That becomes part of… — Amy Tan Copy Share
But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beginning. And… — Amy Tan Copy Share
You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again. — Amy Tan Copy Share
Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your… — Amy Tan Copy Share
We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in… — Amy Tan Copy Share
When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still… — Amy Tan Copy Share
“I am ashamed she is ashamed. Because she is my daughter and I am proud of her, and I am her mother but she… — Amy Tan Copy Share
