Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you- not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again?

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.