You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei
Amy TanAnd 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 TanOnly two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!
Amy TanI think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.
Amy Tan