502 Quotes by Amy Tan

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

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?

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

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

I was appalled at the idea. Evaporate? Would that happen to me? I wanted to expand, to fill the void, to reclaim all that I had wasted. I wanted to fill the silence with all the words I had not yet spoken.

Her mastery of the language was a blissful expression of the spirit to her, like playing a musical instrument.

too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.

We feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. And each week, we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our only joy. And that’s how we came to call our little parties Joy Luck.

Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?