It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success. — Amy Tan Conformity Copy Share Image
“Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else’s joy.” — Amy Tan Grief Copy Share Image
I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations." - Two Kinds — Amy Tan Expectations Copy Share Image
“He has always been politely indifferent. But what's the Chinese word that means indifferent because you can't see any differences?” — Amy Tan Indifference Copy Share Image
Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument. — Amy Tan Argument Copy Share Image
“If someone offers to take your burden, you need to know he is serious, not just being polite and kind. Polite and… — Amy Tan Burden Copy Share Image
“Writing is the witness to myself about myself. Whatever others say of me or how they interpret me is a simulacrum of… — Amy Tan Memoir Copy Share Image
I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will… — Amy Tan Astronomy Copy Share Image
I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“The moving cliff gave us the feeling we had to look behind us to know what lay ahead.” — Amy Tan Cliff 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
“All night long I worried, not about myself but about Jimmy. I imagined him looking for me, running through the park, looking… — Amy Tan Good man Copy Share Image
I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was… — Amy Tan Brother 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 Doing what you love Copy Share Image
And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could… — Amy Tan Eating Copy Share Image
Shanghainese people are good negotiators, they're very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that - very competitive. That becomes… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“In It's Only Temporary, Evan Handler confronts the ambiguities of life backward, forward, and in between. With hilarious honesty he reflects on… — Amy Tan Life Copy Share Image
You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books… — Amy Tan Book Copy Share Image
We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“And my eyes, my mother gave me my eyes, no eyelids, as if they were carved on a jack-o'-lantern with two swift… — Amy Tan Eyes Copy Share Image
“It's not that we had no heart or eyes for pain. We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to… — Amy Tan Hope Copy Share Image
We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“She cried, 'No choice! No choice!' She doesn't know. If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try,… — Amy Tan Choice Copy Share Image
Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time… — Amy Tan Ability Copy Share Image
“...A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place. She teaches you the nature of happiness: what is… — Amy Tan Beauty Copy Share Image
Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“any legend is not worth making up if it does not include a murder or two.” — Amy Tan Legend Copy Share Image
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