Amy Tan, in full Amy Ruth Tan, (born February 19, 1952, Oakland, California, U.S.), American author of novels about Chinese American women and the immigrant experience.
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1. If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.
2. Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.
3. Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
4. 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.
5. Isn’t hate merely the result of wounded love?
6. That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.
7. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.
8. That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.
9. 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.
10. Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.
11. 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.
12. And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over.
13. You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.
14. How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?
15. You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.
16. I won’t be what I’m not.
17. Too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.
18. Your life is what you see in front of you.
19. Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
20. Don’t think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then your mind becomes confused.
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