“In a crowd of Caucasians, two Chinese people are already like family.” — Amy Tan Chinese people Copy Share Image
It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life. — Amy Tan Life Copy Share Image
I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place. — Amy Tan First place Copy Share Image
Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever. — Amy Tan Children Copy Share Image
We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the… — Amy Tan Ambiguity Copy Share Image
“But you can't stay in the dark for so long. Something inside of you starts to fade and you become like a… — Amy Tan Dark Copy Share Image
If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too? — Amy Tan Evil 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
Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“The moving cliff gave us the feeling we had to look behind us to know what lay ahead.” — Amy Tan Cliff Copy Share Image
“Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in surprise to see, at last, her long-cherished wish.” — Amy Tan Mother Copy Share Image
“I thought about things, the pros and cons. But in the end I would be so confused, because I never believed there… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Auntie An-mei had cried before she left for China, thinking she would make her brother very rich and happy by communist standards.… — Amy Tan Charity Copy Share Image
I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was… — Amy Tan Grateful Copy Share Image
“I'm not consciously hiding anything.' After Ruth said that she wondered whether it was true. Then again, who revealed everything - the… — Amy Tan Fear Copy Share Image
I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was… — Amy Tan Brother Copy Share Image
And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could… — Amy Tan Eating Copy Share Image
“Free time was the most precious time, when you should be doing what you loved, or at least slowing down enough to… — Amy Tan Doing what you love 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… — 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… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“She cried, 'No choice! No choice!' She doesn't know. If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try,… — Amy Tan Choice Copy Share Image
Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“And then I see my mother sitting by the open window, her dark silhouette against the night sky. She turns around in… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful… — Amy Tan America Copy Share Image
I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
She [my mother] said that if I listened to her, later I would know what she knew: where true words came from,… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
![“She [my mother] said that if I listened to her, later I would know what she knew: where true words came from, always from up high, above everything else. And if I didn't listen to her, she said my ear would bend too easily to other people, all saying words that had no lasting meaning, because they…” quote by Amy Tan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7f/amy-tan-730_bottom_she-my-mother-said-that-if-i-listened-to_1475479.jpg)
