Amy Tan: Want

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“When I want something to happen — or not happen — I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.
I found the opportunity.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club (1989)

“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

“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

“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

“But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want.”

Amy Tan book The Bonesetter's Daughter

Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter

“It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Source: The Hundred Secret Senses

“Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 15, pg. 254

“External success has to do with people who may see me as a model, or an example, or a representative. As much as I may dislike or want to reject that responsibility, this is something that comes with public success. It's important to give others a sense of hope that it is possible and you can come from really different places in the world and find your own place in the world that's unique for yourself.”

American Acheivement interview (1996)