They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take… — Amy Tan Caves Copy Share Image
“It was our fate and our natures, flawed and wounded, that brought us together - Violet Minturn” — Amy Tan Destiny 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… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use.” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books… — Amy Tan Book Copy Share Image
Wise guy, he not go against wind. In Chinese we say, Come from South, blow with wind -- poom! -- North will… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit. — Amy Tan Spirit 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 Pain Copy Share Image
How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning,… — Amy Tan Absolute truth 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 Book Copy Share Image
You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or… — Amy Tan Brilliant ideas Copy Share Image
Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness… — Amy Tan Desperation Copy Share Image
“Dementia. Ruth puzzled over the diagnosis: How could such a beautiful-sounding word apply to such a destructive disease? It was a name… — Amy Tan Dementia Copy Share Image
“There was never the right time for me to declare we should be together for the rest of our lives when you… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So,… — Amy Tan Care Copy Share Image
“What should we do?", I asked, and I had a pained feeling I thought was the beginning of love. In those early… — 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
“...I owed her a debt of gratitude. More than gratitude, much more. I could finally see what had always been there. She… — Amy Tan Constant love Copy Share Image
And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano… — Amy Tan Accusation 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 Chinese Copy Share Image
Sometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's… — 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
I take a few quick sips. "This is really good." And I mean it. I have never tasted tea like this. It… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“But it was the love of a ghost. Arms that encircled but did not touch. A bowl full of rice but without… — Amy Tan Appetite Copy Share Image
“He has always been politely indifferent. But what's the Chinese word that means indifferent because you can't see any differences?” — Amy Tan Indifference Copy Share Image
I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will… — Amy Tan Astronomy Copy Share Image
I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument. — Amy Tan Argument Copy Share Image
“If someone offers to take your burden, you need to know he is serious, not just being polite and kind. Polite and… — Amy Tan Burden Copy Share Image
“Writing is the witness to myself about myself. Whatever others say of me or how they interpret me is a simulacrum of… — Amy Tan Memoir Copy Share Image
“Some of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.” — 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
For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression. — Amy Tan Choices Copy Share Image
We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already… — Amy Tan Despair Copy Share Image
Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I felt foolish and tired, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind to discover… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else’s joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow… — Amy Tan Grief Copy Share Image
“Those were the reasons we both knew how deep love was, the shared pain that would outlast any pain we caused each… — Amy Tan Deep love Copy Share Image
