And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love,… — Amy Tan Destiny Copy Share Image
“Being able to restrain my emotions isn’t a great victory—it’s the pitiful proof of lost love.” — Amy Tan Emotions 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
I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen." — Amy Tan Art Copy Share Image
“I am ashamed she is ashamed. Because she is my daughter and I am proud of her, and I am her mother… — 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 Change Copy Share Image
“Whenever others disapprove of you, you must disregard them and be the only” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part… — Amy Tan Body Copy Share Image
“When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes.… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient… — Amy Tan Ability Copy Share Image
I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in… — Amy Tan Books Copy Share Image
“Too little wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people's ideas, unable to stand on your own. [...] Too… — Amy Tan Water Copy Share Image
I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that… — Amy Tan Bible stories Copy Share Image
My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the world of Yin,… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Precious Auntie, what is our name? I always meant to claim it as my own. Come help me remember. I'm not a… — 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
“Thanks to my mother, I was raised to have a morbid imagination. When I was a child, she often talked about death… — Amy Tan Children Copy Share Image
“I do not consider myself a religious person, because I don't adhere to a particular religion or faith or prescribed beliefs, as… — Amy Tan Collective unconscious Copy Share Image
“Was there ever a true great love? Anyone who became the object of my obsession and not simply my affections? I honestly… — Amy Tan Great love Copy Share Image
That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love - that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Teddy once told me that it’s natural that we feel alone, and that’s because our hearts are different from others and we… — Amy Tan Loneliness 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… — 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
And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight… — Amy Tan Age Copy Share Image
“I made a promise to myself: I would always remember my parents' wishes, but I would never forget myself.” — Amy Tan Parenting Copy Share Image
If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei — Amy Tan Chance Copy Share Image
“Forever did not mean what it once had. Forever was what changed inevitably over time.” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a… — Amy Tan Giving Copy Share Image
All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling. — Amy Tan Children Copy Share Image
“I tried to keep very still, but my heart felt like crickets scratching to get out of the cage.” — 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
I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away… — Amy Tan Feelings Copy Share Image
I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions I have ever felt and they are now stored in my intuition as a… — Amy Tan Breathless Copy Share Image
“The things one had to do in life sometimes had nothing to do with what was fun or convenient.” — Amy Tan Life 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 Children Copy Share Image
“Accept love when it is offered, Violet. Return love and not suspicion. Then you'll receive more. - Loyalty Tang” — Amy Tan Love Copy Share Image
Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! — Amy Tan Children Copy Share Image
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