Amy Tan Short Quotes

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

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Your father is not my first husband. You are not those babies.

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

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I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

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While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.

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Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

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It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

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With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

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

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I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child...

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Writing what you wish was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.

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If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.

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I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations." - Two Kinds

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Her mouth dropped open to let this thought come in and nourish her brain.

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

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

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In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

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

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That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

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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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Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.

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Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

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Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.

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I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

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

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You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.

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And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.

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You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.

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

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