“What was worse, we asked among ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose… — Amy Tan Death Copy Share Image
I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control. — Amy Tan Faith Copy Share Image
“I know how it is to live your life like a dream. To listen and watch, to wake up and try to… — Amy Tan Dream Copy Share Image
That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets. — Amy Tan Betrayal Copy Share Image
“Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your… — Amy Tan Dream Copy Share Image
I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“i'm not saying fate happens without blame. but when fate turns out well, everyone should forget the bad road that got us… — Amy Tan Destiny Copy Share Image
People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your… — Amy Tan China Copy Share Image
That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I… — Amy Tan Art Copy Share Image
“Because I think to myself, even today, how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so… — Amy Tan Coincidence Copy Share Image
“But he was so attuned to my every movement I was sure he was reading my mind. HE had no inhibitions, and… — Amy Tan Psychology Copy Share Image
You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved?… — Amy Tan Consequence Copy Share Image
He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars,… — Amy Tan Brilliant Copy Share Image
“It isn't that i consider them brave, they are reckless, unpredictable, maddeningly unreliable. But like rogue waves and shooting stars, they also… — Amy Tan Adventure Copy Share Image
“What I realized about the dreamland, however, was the power it once held simply by being withheld from me. It created yearning—and… — Amy Tan Desire Copy Share Image
You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between… — Amy Tan About yourself Copy Share Image
“A pious man explained to his followers: 'It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge… — Amy Tan Fish Copy Share Image
“Do you know what morals are, Violet? They’re other people’s rules. Do you know what a conscience is? Freedom to use your… — Amy Tan Character Copy Share Image
“Memory, in fact, gives you no choice over which moments you can erase, and it is annoyingly persistent in retaining the most… — Amy Tan Memory 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 still don't know which way I would teach you. I was once so free and innocent. I too laughed for no… — 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
The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do… — Amy Tan Body Copy Share Image
how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites? — Amy Tan Chaos Copy Share Image
How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently? — 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
And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in… — Amy Tan Asian Copy Share Image
Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to… — Amy Tan Chess 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
“A few times I invited Ba to visit me from the World of Yin. But other yin friends tell me he is… — Amy Tan Lies Copy Share Image
Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Even when I worked in that world, I still wanted love so strong that the man would have no interest in another… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith… — Amy Tan Destiny Copy Share Image
“I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the soul. And the soul… — Amy Tan Love Copy Share Image
Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have… — 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
When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I… — Amy Tan Happiness Copy Share Image
“Reviewers, critics, guest editors... Such people may have an eye for literary conventions and contrivances, allusions and innovations on the art. But… — Amy Tan Art Copy Share Image
