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Behind Quotes by Amy Tan
- Clichés are static, the emotion behind them long spent. If you are tempted to use them, here is a saying of my mother’s: Fang pi…
- I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what…
- Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together,…
- She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another,…
- And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.
- I felt foolish and tired, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind to discover there was no…
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