Too many good things all seem the same after a while. Amy Tan More Quotes by Amy Tan More Quotes From Amy Tan I take a few quick sips. "This is really good." And I mean it. I have never tasted tea like this. It is smooth, pungent, and instantly addicting. "This is from Grand Auntie," my mother explains. "She told me 'If I buy the cheap tea, then I am saying that my whole life has not been worth something better.' A few years ago she bought it for herself. One hundred dollars a pound." "You're kidding." I take another sip. It tastes even better. Amy Tan mother mean years Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden. Amy Tan eye fire night Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad man left me. Amy Tan heart men two I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression. Amy Tan intelligent choices expression Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love? Amy Tan wounded results hate I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house. Amy Tan house kids book I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water. Amy Tan pain love years Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever. Amy Tan daughter forever laughing Dementia was like a truth serum. Amy Tan dementia 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. Amy Tan emotional love life I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left. Amy Tan magic hands fiction Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. Amy Tan flukes inspiration kindness There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do. Amy Tan fate reason trying I love my daughter. She and I have shared my 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. Amy Tan swimming daughter mind I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me. Amy Tan hard-times forgiving people It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want. Amy Tan logic form want In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you. Amy Tan joy-luck-club giving america You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know. Amy Tan remembers-you remember-you heart You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them. Amy Tan catchy power hands From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man. Amy Tan pain stupid men
