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 More Quotes by Amy Tan More Quotes From Amy Tan That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do. Amy Tan luxury artist mean I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or not, I know the intention was there. Becasue when I want something to happen-or not happen- I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid. Amy Tan want-something events opportunity To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself. Amy Tan destroyed lovely life When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside. Amy Tan wall house home You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning) Amy Tan mind people thinking I've always been a magnet for guilt. Amy Tan magnet guilt Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with Amy Tan language tools use Your only shame is to have shame. Amy Tan shame But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want. Amy Tan fit figures want You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not? Amy Tan intention saving pay I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness in a place I didn't know was there. I cursed this man aloud so he could hear. You had dog eyes. You jumped and followed whoever called you. Now you chase your own tail. Amy Tan eye strong dog I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic. Amy Tan gothic stories kids People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy. Amy Tan alzheimers mother thinking There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path. Amy Tan successful people thinking A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery. Amy Tan drinking dream bird My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite. Amy Tan my-favorite want book You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable. Amy Tan writing book thinking In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward. Amy Tan rewards writing fiction My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me. Amy Tan teaching ghost mother On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow. Amy Tan new-year mother years
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