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“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.”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Source: The Hundred Secret Senses

“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 The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“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.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“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

“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”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“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 book Saving Fish from Drowning

Source: Saving Fish from Drowning

“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”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.”

Amy Tan book Saving Fish from Drowning

Source: Saving Fish from Drowning

“But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.
-Jing-mei”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Source: The Hundred Secret Senses

“How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?”

Amy Tan The Kitchen God's Wife

Source: The Kitchen God's Wife

“You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.
-An-mei”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“I won't be what I'm not.
-Jing-mei”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“Your life is what you see in front of you.
-An-mei”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“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.”

Amy Tan

“Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“Why do you think you are missing something you never had?”

Amy Tan

“If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever.
-An-mei”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club