“What are ghosts if not the hope that love continues beyond our ordinary senses? If ghosts are a delusion, then let me… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put… — Amy Tan Bird Copy Share Image
But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“I imagine a hundred Chinese Icaruses, molding wings out of earwax. You can't stop people from wishing.” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“I was returning with myself whole and unbroken—limbs, mind, and spirit. I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance” — Amy Tan Identity Copy Share Image
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden. — Amy Tan Burden Copy Share Image
“When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he's thinking of pulling up roots.” — Amy Tan Divorce Copy Share Image
From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting… — 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 Lies Copy Share Image
You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between… — Amy Tan About yourself Copy Share Image
“I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith… — Amy Tan Destiny Copy Share Image
Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Even when I worked in that world, I still wanted love so strong that the man would have no interest in another… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“As proof of her faith, my mother used to carry a samll leatherette Bible when she went to the First Chinese Baptist… — Amy Tan Bible Copy Share Image
“Americans don’t really look at one another when talking. They talk to their reflections. They look at others or themselves only when… — Amy Tan Americans Copy Share Image
The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do… — Amy Tan Body Copy Share Image
I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's… — Amy Tan Coincidence Copy Share Image
“Do you know what morals are, Violet? They’re other people’s rules. Do you know what a conscience is? Freedom to use your… — Amy Tan Character 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 Memory Copy Share Image
“Can I tell my daughter that I loved her father? This was the man who rubbed my feet at night. He praised… — Amy Tan Children Copy Share Image
For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds. — Amy Tan Darkness Copy Share Image
“We listened patiently to Lester, words skittering out of his mouth like cartoon dogs on fresh-waxed linoleum, frantically going nowhere.” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was. — Amy Tan Memory Copy Share Image
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. — Amy Tan Catcher in the rye 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 Expectations Copy Share Image
We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood. — Amy Tan Community Copy Share Image
My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a… — Amy Tan Chinese Copy Share Image
I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called… — Amy Tan Clever Copy Share Image
You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. — Amy Tan Dream 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
“Even though I did not understand her entire story, I understood her grief.” — Amy Tan Grief Copy Share Image
I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not… — Amy Tan Character Copy Share Image
“All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites? — Amy Tan Chaos Copy Share Image
