Amy Tan Quotations | Page 3

With hope, a mind is always free.

All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying

Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.

But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo

I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?

It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

I have always known a thing before it happens.

And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.

I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child...

And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.