And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
When you lose your face..., it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours.… — Amy Tan 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 Copy Share Image
So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a… — Amy Tan 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
So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
A girl is like a young tree, she said. You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you.… — Amy Tan 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
Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to… — Amy Tan 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
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
I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness.… — 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
How I saw in her my own true nature. What was beneath my skin. Inside my bones... Even though I was young,… — 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
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or… — 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
