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“All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me.
-Ying Ying”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing.
-Jing-mei”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Source: The Hundred Secret Senses

“No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.”

Amy Tan

“Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.”

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 the expectation.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't know why something that made me so happy then feels so sad now. Maybe that is the way it is with the best memories.”

Amy Tan The Kitchen God's Wife

Source: The Kitchen God's Wife

“What is the past but what we choose to remember?”

Amy Tan book The Bonesetter's Daughter

Variant: After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter

“Chaos is the penance for leisure.”

Amy Tan book The Bonesetter's Daughter

Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter

“There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying.
Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Source: The Kitchen God's Wife (1991), p. 9
Source: The Hundred Secret Senses

“When you lose your face…, it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“I was no longer scared. I could see what was inside me.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 3, pg. 59

“We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.”

Amy Tan book The Bonesetter's Daughter

Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter

“If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“Only two kind of daughters. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter!”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 8, pg. 142

“If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club