Amy Tan - The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)

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Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?

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My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the World of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco.
"Libby-ah," she'll say to me. "Guess who I see yesterday, you guess." And I don't have to guess that she's talking about someone dead.

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When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?

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I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn't know what that was. I knew only what it wasn't. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

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

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

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Our breakup was the result of many things: a wrong beginning, bad timing, years and years of thinking habit and silence were the same as intimacy.

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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.

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I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

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

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

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