“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 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
“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
External success has to do with people who may see me as a model, or an example, or a representative. As much… — 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 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 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 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 learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate.… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Lebih baik jadi orang yang TIDAK TERLUPAKAN daripada orang yang MEMBOSANKAN -” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember? — Amy Tan 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 different in… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
