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The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
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"So you must teach my daughter this aforementioned lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever."
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Gild

"Now you encounter,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why yous must learn to swallow your ain tears."
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Social club

"That is the mode information technology is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is pain so much. And once information technology is closed, you no longer run across what is underneath, what started the hurting."
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

"We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.
-Suyuan"
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

"So this is what I will exercise. I volition gather together my past and wait. I volition run into a thing that has already happened. the pain that cutting my spirit loose. I volition hold that pain in my hand until it becomes difficult and shiny, more than clear. And and so my fierceness can come up dorsum, my gold side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough peel and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, considering this is the nature of two tigers. But I will win and giver her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter."
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Gild

"I had on a beautiful red apparel, simply what I saw was fifty-fifty more than valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could meet, that no i could ever take away from me. I was similar the wind.
-Lindo"
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

"Because sometimes that is the only mode to remember what is in your bones. You must pare off your skin, and that of your female parent, and her mother. Until there is aught. No scar, no peel, no flesh.
-An-mei"
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Guild

"And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they run into their own daughters, just equally ignorant, but as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they take brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who remember they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They meet that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who volition bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation."
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

"And I call up now that fate is shaped one-half by expectation, one-half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you lot beloved, faith takes over.
-Rose"
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Lodge

"Just she never looked dorsum with regret. There were and so many means for things to become ameliorate.
-Jing-mei"
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

"Each person is made of five dissimilar elements, she told me.
Too much burn down and y'all had a bad temper. That was similar my father, whom my mother always critized for his cigarette addiction and who always shouted back that she should feel guilty that he didn't let my female parent speak her mind.
Too lilliputian wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people'due south ideas, unable to stand on your own. This was similar my Auntie An-mei.
Too much water and you flowed in likewise many different directions. like myself."
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

"You must think for yourself, what you must practice. If someone tells y'all, and then you are non trying.
-An-mei"
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

"A girl is like a immature tree, she said. You must stand up tall and listen to your female parent standing next to yous. That is the simply way to grow strong and straight. But if you lot bend to listen to other people, you will abound crooked and weak. You will fall to the basis with the first strong wind. And then y'all volition exist like a weed, growing wild in any direction, running along the footing until someone pulls you out and throws you away. "
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

"For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me. "
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Lodge

"Fate is shaped half past expectation, half past inattention."
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Order

" wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You lot throw stones in and they sink into darkness and deliquesce. Her eyes looking dorsum practice non reverberate anything.
I recall this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same trunk. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. Just when she was born she sprang from me similar a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore."
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

"All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow and then nobody could catch me.
-Ying Ying"
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

"If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she tin can lose her run a risk forever.
-An-mei"
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

"Besides many good things all seem the aforementioned after a while. "
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

"To come up so far, to lose so much and to find aught.
-Jing-mei"
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Order

"I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something y'all honey, organized religion takes over. You accept to pay attention to what y'all lost. You have to undo the expectation."
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

"But now that I am one-time, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also experience closer to the start. And I remember everything that happened that day becasue it has happened many times in my life. The same innocence, trust, and restlessness; the wonder, fright, and lonliness. How I lost myself.
I remember all these things. And tonight, on the fifteenth twenty-four hour period of the eighth moon, I likewise call up what I asked the Moon Lady so long agone. I wished to exist found."
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Society

"There'due south no hope. There's no reason to keep trying.
Considering you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you lot must do."
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Gild

"If I await upon my whole life, I cannot think of some other time when I felt more comfy: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely every bit lying inside a cocoon of rose silk."
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Gild

"But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was within me.
-Lindo"
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

"And so she told me why a tiger is gold and black. Information technology has ii ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce center. The black side stands withal with cunning, hiding its golden betwixt the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad human left me."
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

"She cried, 'No choice! No selection!' She doesn't know. If she doesn't speak, she is making a selection. If she doesn't effort, she can lose her chance forever.
I know this, considering I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nix, to swallow other people'due south misery, to eat my own bitterness.
and even though I taught my girl the opposite, she however came out the aforementioned mode! Maybe it is considering she was born to me and she was born a daughter. And I was born to my mother and I was born a daughter. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.
I know how it is to exist quiet, to listen and watch, as if your life were a dream. You tin close your eyes when yous no longer want to watch. But when yous no longer want to listen, what can you do? I can still hear what happened more than lx years ago. "
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

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