“I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won'ts. I won't let her change me, I promised myself. I won't be what I'm not.”

— Amy Tan , The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 8, pg. 134

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