“ It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want. Amy Tan
“ I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo… Amy Tan
“ I take a few quick sips. This is really good. And I mean it. I have never tasted tea like this. It is smooth, pungent, and instantly addicting.This is from Grand Auntie, my mother explains. She told m… Amy Tan
“ I know how it is to live your life like a dream. To listen and watch, to wake up and try to understand what has already happened. You do not need a psychiatrist to do this. A psychiatrist does not wan… Amy Tan
“ 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 remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now unbreakabl… Amy Tan
“ Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, but they didn't force me to speak Mandarin. In retrospect, this was sad, because they believed that my… Amy Tan
“ 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 stone are worn down by water. Amy Tan
“ I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression. Amy Tan
“ The moment is altered as soon as I try to capture it, so for me, it’s impossible. How true, I thought. Moments are gone as soon as you think about them. Amy Tan
“ 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 pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes h… Amy Tan
“ What are ghosts if not the hope that love continues beyond our ordinary senses? If ghosts are a delusion, then let me be deluded. Amy Tan
“ Why would any writer in her right mind ever consider making a movie instead? That's like going from being a monk or a nun to serving as a camp counselor for hundreds of problem children. Amy Tan
“ I had thus learned to push down my feelings, to force myself to not care, to do nothing and let things happen, come what may. Amy Tan
“ 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. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious… Amy Tan
