Amy Tan - Remember Quotes

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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.

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I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.

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I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.

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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

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I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.

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After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?

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

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Now that I'm angry at Harold, it's hard to remember what was so remarkable about him.

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