People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your… — Amy Tan China Copy Share Image
“i'm not saying fate happens without blame. but when fate turns out well, everyone should forget the bad road that got us… — Amy Tan Destiny Copy Share Image
And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in… — Amy Tan Asian Copy Share Image
Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to… — Amy Tan Chess Copy Share Image
But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently? — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control. — Amy Tan Faith Copy Share Image
“What was worse, we asked among ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose… — Amy Tan Death Copy Share Image
“Where did he go when he left us? I spied the new journal he had started using just last week and held… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“I worried that Harold would someday get a new prescription for his glasses and he'd put them on one morning, look me… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers,… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing… — Amy Tan Despair Copy Share Image
No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“If you don’t take a chance, someone else will give you his luck. And if you get bad luck, then you need… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“My mother and I never really understood one another. We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what… — Amy Tan Mother Copy Share Image
“A pious man explained to his followers: 'It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge… — Amy Tan Fish Copy Share Image
“What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?... I imagined two people without words, unable to… — Amy Tan Language Copy Share Image
Isn't that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“My mother believed in God's will for many years. It was af if she had turned on a celestial faucet and goodness… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“I still don't know which way I would teach you. I was once so free and innocent. I too laughed for no… — Amy Tan 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
Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“What should we do?", I asked, and I had a pained feeling I thought was the beginning of love. In those early… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
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… — Amy Tan Depression Copy Share Image
I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your… — Amy Tan Dream 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 Dream Copy Share Image
That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets. — Amy Tan Betrayal Copy Share Image
All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying — 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
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… — Amy Tan Giving Copy Share Image
It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say,… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“I tried to keep very still, but my heart felt like crickets scratching to get out of the cage.” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling. — Amy Tan Children Copy Share Image
Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Whenever others disapprove of you, you must disregard them and be the only” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight… — Amy Tan Age Copy Share Image
If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei — Amy Tan Chance Copy Share Image
