Amy Tan Messages

I 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.

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

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

Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

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

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

Over time, passion wanes, differences don't.

Hardships can harden even the best person.

From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.