“ From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man. Amy Tan
“ Every word, every gesture is now loaded with ambiguity, nothing can be taken at face value. We speak to each other from a safe distance, pretending all the years we soaped each other's backs and pisse… Amy Tan
“ Do you know what morals are Violet? They're other people's rules. Do you know what a conscience is? Freedom to use your own intelligence to determine what is right or wrong. You possess that freedom a… Amy Tan
“ But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beginning. And I remember everything that happened that day becasue it has happened many times in my li… Amy Tan
“ Accept love when it is offered, Violet. Return love and not suspicion. Then you'll receive more. - Loyalty Tang Amy Tan
“ A pious man explained to his followers: 'It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place t… Amy Tan
“ You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially… Amy Tan
“ We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood. Amy Tan
“ We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.-Suyuan Amy Tan
“ She cried, 'No choice! No choice!' She doesn't know. If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. I know this, because I was raised the Chinese wa… Amy Tan
“ Seeing her this last time, I threw myself on her body. And she opened her eyes slowly. I was not scared. I knew she could see me and what she had finally done. So i shut her eyes with my fingers and t… Amy Tan
“ Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. 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
“ If you asked me how I felt when they told me I would marry Wen Fu, I can say only this: It was like being told I had won a big prize. And it was also like being told my head was going to be chopped of… Amy Tan
“ I thought about things, the pros and cons. But in the end I would be so confused, because I never believed there was ever any one right answer, yet there were many wrong ones. Amy Tan
“ I still don't know which way I would teach you. I was once so free and innocent. I too laughed for no reason. But later I threw away my foolish innocence to protect myself. And then I taught my daught… Amy Tan
“ He saw all those private aspects of me - and I mean not just sexual private parts, but my darker side, my meanness, my pettiness, my self-loathing - all the things I kept hidden. So that with him I wa… Amy Tan
“ All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way. Amy Tan
“ We were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us. Amy Tan
“ We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. Amy Tan
