When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.
Amy TanI think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.
Amy TanNo two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.
Amy TanNow I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.
Amy Tan