Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love? Amy Tan More Quotes by Amy Tan More Quotes From Amy Tan My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female. Amy Tan chinese female mother He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity. Amy Tan sunset stars morning While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth. Amy Tan speak-the-truth wells speak Love is tricky. It is never mundane or daily. You can never get used to it. You have to walk with it, then let it walk with you. You can never balk. It moves you like the tide. It takes you out to sea, then lays you on the beach again. Today's struggling pain is the foundation for a certain stride through the heavens. You can run from it but you can never say no. It includes everyone. Amy Tan pain running beach Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her. Amy Tan unhappy world thinking That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love - that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost? Maybe you lost more maybe less, then thousand different things that come from your memory or imagination - and you do not know which is which, which was true, which is false. Amy Tan different imagination memories Wise guy, he not go against wind. In Chinese we say, Come from South, blow with wind -- poom! -- North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen. Amy Tan wise blow wind If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry. Amy Tan greedy hungry ifs We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in the questions that arise as we read, in the answers that we find, in the degree of satisfaction or unease we feel with those answers...In the hands of a different reader, the same story can be a different story. Amy Tan satisfaction book hands When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one? Amy Tan loyal-friend loyal believe Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart? Amy Tan noses heart memories Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. Amy Tan fate half expectations 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. Amy Tan swimming daughter eye I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations. Amy Tan tests expectations two ...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. Amy Tan mountain-peaks two people I felt foolish and tired, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind to discover there was no one there. Amy Tan tired running looks All objects exist in a moment of time. Amy Tan objects existence moments Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5 Amy Tan want play chess 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. Amy Tan littles memories way Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused. Amy Tan confused believe thinking
