Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.
Amy TanThe forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
Amy TanHow can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?
Amy TanShe would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, one from this direction, another form behind, more and more, until his looks, his character, his soul would have eroded away . . . I was afraid that some unseen speck of truth would fly into my eye, blur what I was seeing and transform him from the divine man I thought he was into someone quite mundane, mortally wounded with tiresome habits and irritating imperfections.
Amy Tan