You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know. — 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
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
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 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
She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars,… — Amy Tan 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
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
My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that… — Amy Tan 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
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 Copy Share Image
Clichés are static, the emotion behind them long spent. If you are tempted to use them, here is a saying of my… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still… — Amy Tan Copy Share
“I am ashamed she is ashamed. Because she is my daughter and I am proud of her, and I am her mother but she… — Amy Tan Copy Share
