I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“I imagine a hundred Chinese Icaruses, molding wings out of earwax. You can't stop people from wishing.” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“I was returning with myself whole and unbroken—limbs, mind, and spirit. I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance” — Amy Tan Identity 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
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
My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put… — Amy Tan Bird Copy Share Image
“Chinese people do business, do medicine, do painting. Not lazy like American people. We do torture. Best torture.” — Amy Tan American people Copy Share Image
“Why did I need to see someone else's bad luck? To feel glad it was not mine? To scare myself into thinking… — Amy Tan Bad luck Copy Share Image
“All night long I worried, not about myself but about Jimmy. I imagined him looking for me, running through the park, looking… — Amy Tan Good man Copy Share Image
People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to choose a… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Maybe all Americans who suffer from melancholy act as if they have gone mad. But I truly thought he might throw himself… — Amy Tan Madness Copy Share Image
Seeing her this last time, I threw myself on her body. And she opened her eyes slowly. I was not scared. I… — Amy Tan Body Copy Share Image
“...and it's ridiculous that anyone would praise a child for standing with arms spread out on a wooden cross, as if she… — Amy Tan Children Copy Share Image
I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I… — Amy Tan Beautiful Copy Share Image
“. . .the world is not a place but the vastness of the soul. And the soul is nothing more than love,… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn't really mean I was a failure, and… — 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
You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak… — Amy Tan Beloved 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
“And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the different ways we leave people… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“At first, I thought it was because I was raised with all this Chinese humility... Or maybe it was because when you're… — Amy Tan Asian Copy Share Image
“Was there ever a great true love? Anyone who became the object of my obsession and not simply my affections?...I could not… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember? — Amy Tan Past Copy Share Image
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