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Amy Tan

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We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.


— Amy Tan


#fate #hope #change

Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?


— Amy Tan


#hope #change

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.


— Amy Tan


#heavens #star #love

Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.


— Amy Tan


#teaching

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.


— Amy Tan


#chance

Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?


— Amy Tan


#love

That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.


— Amy Tan


#life

You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.


— Amy Tan


#change

My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes.


— Amy Tan


#first-sentence

What are ghosts if not the hope that love continues beyond our ordinary senses? If ghosts are a delusion, then let me be deluded.


— Amy Tan


#love






About Amy Tan

Amy Tan Quotes




Did you know about Amy Tan?

Tan is also in a band with several other well-known writers the Rock Bottom Remainders. When Tan was 15 years old her older brother Peter and father both died of brain tumors within a year of each other. She is the second of three children born to Chinese immigrants Daisy (née Li) who was forced to leave her three daughters from a previous marriage behind in Shanghai and John Tan an electrical engineer and Baptist minister.

In addition to these Tan has written two children's books: The Moon Lady (1992) and Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat (1994) which was turned into an animated series which aired on PBS. Tan is also in a band with several other well-known writers the Rock Bottom Remainders. Her most recent novel Saving Fish from Drowning explores the tribulations experienced by a group of people who disappear while on an expedition in the jungles of Burma.

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