100 Famous Quotes By Amy Tan On Luck, Culture, Relationships And More
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.
Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?
Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.
I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.
I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.
Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?
Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.
That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.
We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan
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 once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.
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.
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, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei
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.
And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose
I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.
How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?
But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei
You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei
After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei
Too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.
Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.
Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei
