“ It was our fate and our natures, flawed and wounded, that brought us together - Violet Minturn Amy Tan
“ I worried that Harold would someday get a new prescription for his glasses and he'd put them on one morning, look me up and down, and say, Why, gosh, you aren't the girl I thought you were, are you? Amy Tan
“ I tried to keep very still, but my heart felt like crickets scratching to get out of the cage. Amy Tan
“ 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 I had imagined was a safer place. And hiding in this place, behind my invisible barriers, I… Amy Tan
“ Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear? Amy Tan
“ Can I tell my daughter that I loved her father? This was the man who rubbed my feet at night. He praised the food that I cooked. He cried honestly when I brought out trinkets I had saved for the right… Amy Tan
“ But he was so attuned to my every movement I was sure he was reading my mind. HE had no inhibitions, and whatever ones he discovered I had he'd pry away from me like little treasures. Amy Tan
“ Being able to restrain my emotions isn’t a great victory—it’s the pitiful proof of lost love. Amy Tan
“ Whenever I'm with my [teenager] I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. Amy Tan
“ How can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites? Amy Tan
“ You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.-An-mei Amy Tan
“ The only thing certain in times of great uncertainty is that people will behave with great strength or weakness, and with very little else in between. Amy Tan
“ The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose,… Amy Tan
“ Precious Auntie, what is our name? I always meant to claim it as my own. Come help me remember. I'm not a little girl anymore. I'm not afraid of ghosts. Are you still mad at me? Don't you recognize me… Amy Tan
“ My friend, my editor, still had the cancer. Each day she had to cross a terrible chasm, a bottomless hole of not knowing what to hope or believe. I tried to imagine what she saw, but I did not have he… Amy Tan
“ Memory, in fact, gives you no choice over which moments you can erase, and it is annoyingly persistent in retaining the most painful ones. It is extraordinarily faithful in recording the most hideous… Amy Tan
“ Lately I have been feeling hulihudu. And everything around me seemed to be heimongmong. These were words I had never thought about in English terms. I suppose the closest in meaning would be confused… Amy Tan
“ It isn't that i consider them brave, they are reckless, unpredictable, maddeningly unreliable. But like rogue waves and shooting stars, they also add thrills to a life that otherwise would be as regul… Amy Tan
“ Isn't that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You are choosing what you want. And you are also choosing what somebody else does not want,… Amy Tan
