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The Joy Luck Club QUOTES

The Joy Luck Club QUOTES

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

― Amy Tan , The Joy Luck Club

2 " And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now unbreakable. So I never found a way to ask her why she had hoped something so large that failure was inevitable. And even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most: Why had she given up hope? "

― Amy Tan , The Joy Luck Club

3 " She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, one from this direction, another form behind, more and more, until his looks, his character, his soul would have eroded away . . . I was afraid that some unseen speck of truth would fly into my eye, blur what I was seeing and transform him from the divine man I thought he was into someone quite mundane, mortally wounded with tiresome habits and irritating imperfections. "

― Amy Tan , The Joy Luck Club

4 " When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he's thinking of pulling up roots. "

― Amy Tan , The Joy Luck Club

5 " Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different. "

― Amy Tan , The Joy Luck Club

6 " And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheerily waving good-bye to some at airports, knowing we'll never see each other again. Leaving others on the side of the road, hoping that we will. Finding my mother in my father's story and saying good-bye before before I have a chance to know her better. "

― Amy Tan , The Joy Luck Club

7 " And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheerily waving good-bye to some at airports, knowing we'll never see each other again. Leaving others on the side of the road, hoping that we will. Finding my mother in my father's story and saying good-bye before I have a chance to know her better. "

― Amy Tan , The Joy Luck Club

8 " You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light. "

― Amy Tan , The Joy Luck Club

9 " But you can't stay in the dark for so long. Something inside of you starts to fade and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light. "

― Amy Tan , The Joy Luck Club

10 " wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything.
I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born she sprang from me like 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

11 " A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery. "

― Amy Tan , The Joy Luck Club

12 " Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. "

― Amy Tan , The Joy Luck Club

13 " That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain. "

― Amy Tan , The Joy Luck Club

14 " Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears. "

― Amy Tan , The Joy Luck Club

15 " Auntie Yang is not hard of hearing. She is hard of listening. "

― Amy Tan , The Joy Luck Club

16 " Auntie An-mei had cried before she left for China, thinking she would make her brother very rich and happy by communist standards. But when she got home, she cried to me that everyone had a palm out and she was the only one who left with an empty hand. "

― Amy Tan , The Joy Luck Club

17 " If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk. "

― Amy Tan , The Joy Luck Club

18 " Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love? "

― Amy Tan , The Joy Luck Club

19 " Now you see,' 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 you must learn to swallow your own tears. "

― Amy Tan , The Joy Luck Club

20 " So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. the pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes hard and shiny, more clear. And then my fierceness can come back, my golden side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because 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 Club