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Way Quotes by Amy Tan
- I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.
- Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some…
- I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on…
- I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way,…
- I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the…
- Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother,…
- But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei
- But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying
- When you lose your face..., it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall…
- That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And…
- How I saw in her my own true nature. What was beneath my skin. Inside my bones... Even though I was young, I could see…
- What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?... And then…
- Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black…
- So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. the…
- It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions…
- A girl is like a young tree, she said. You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you. That is the…
- And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that…
- And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't know why something…
- So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time.…
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