And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you. — Amy Tan America Copy Share Image
Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart? — Amy Tan Heart Copy Share Image
I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba. — Amy Tan Cuba Copy Share Image
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… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear? — 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 Beauty 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
Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“as to our hopes, our dreams, our secret desires, we couldn't talk about those. They were to vague, too frightening, too important.… — Amy Tan Desires Copy Share Image
Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the soul. And the soul… — Amy Tan Love Copy Share Image
“If you asked me how I felt when they told me I would marry Wen Fu, I can say only this: It… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Reviewers, critics, guest editors... Such people may have an eye for literary conventions and contrivances, allusions and innovations on the art. But… — Amy Tan Art Copy Share Image
When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I… — Amy Tan Happiness Copy Share Image
“Teddy once told me that it’s natural that we feel alone, and that’s because our hearts are different from others and we… — Amy Tan Loneliness Copy Share Image
But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“I know how it is to live your life like a dream. To listen and watch, to wake up and try to… — Amy Tan Dreams Copy Share Image
“American circumstances and Chiese character. How could I know these two things do not mix? I taught her how American circumstances work.… — Amy Tan Bad luck Copy Share Image
What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same… — Amy Tan Color Copy Share Image
“Thanks to my mother, I was raised to have a morbid imagination. When I was a child, she often talked about death… — Amy Tan Children Copy Share Image
“I do not consider myself a religious person, because I don't adhere to a particular religion or faith or prescribed beliefs, as… — Amy Tan Collective unconscious Copy Share Image
“Was there ever a true great love? Anyone who became the object of my obsession and not simply my affections? I honestly… — Amy Tan Great love Copy Share Image
Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Chinese people do business, do medicine, do painting. Not lazy like American people. We do torture. Best torture.” — Amy Tan American people Copy Share Image
“Why did I need to see someone else's bad luck? To feel glad it was not mine? To scare myself into thinking… — Amy Tan Bad luck Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always… — Amy Tan Being successful Copy Share Image
“He simply translated what was in LuLing's heart: her better intentions, her hopes.” — Amy tan Beautiful Copy Share Image
You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with. — Amy Tan Arrogance Copy Share Image
“But how can anyone truly understand another’s suffering unless he has felt the wound being made and the moment trust died?” — Amy Tan Suffering Copy Share Image
Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much… — Amy Tan Children Copy Share Image
I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in surprise to see, at last, her long-cherished wish.” — Amy Tan Mother 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
“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
If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too? — Amy Tan Evil Copy Share Image
