Amy Tan
Amy Tan
Amy Tanis an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese-American experience. Her best-known work is The Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 25 languages. In 1993, the book was adapted into a commercially successful film...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 February 1952
CityOakland, CA
CountryUnited States of America
want logic form
It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.
pain disappointment children
I learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out of reach. And by telling myself that there was nothing inside those hopes anyway, I avoided the wounds of deep disappointment. The pain was no worse than the quick sting of a booster shot. And yet thinking about this makes me ache again. How is it that as a child I knew I should have been loved more? Is everyone born with a bottomless emotional resevoir?
moments existence objects
All objects exist in a moment of time.
speak speak-the-truth wells
While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.
daughter eye swimming
wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything. I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore.
two expectations tests
I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations." - Two Kinds
hungry greedy ifs
If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.
memories heart tongue
Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?
fate expectations half
Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
inspiring enough expected
I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
turtles joy sorrow
Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.
good-things seems
Too many good things all seem the same after a while.
pride arrogance each-day
You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.
mountain-peaks two people
...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.