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61 " A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use. "
― Amy Tan , The Joy Luck Club
62 " I worried that Harold would someday get a new prescription for his glasses and he'd put them on one morning, look me up and down, and say, "Why, gosh, you aren't the girl I thought you were, are you? "
63 " I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or not, I know the intention was there. Becasue when I want something to happen-or not happen- I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid. "
64 " What use for? asks my mother, jiggling the table with her hand. You put something else on top, everything fall down. "
65 " But he was so attuned to my every movement I was sure he was reading my mind. HE had no inhibitions, and whatever ones he discovered I had he'd pry away from me like little treasures. "
66 " Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear? "
67 " Everybody looked down on someone else. It didn´t matter that everybody shared the same sidewalk to spit on and suffered the same fast-moving diarrhea. We all had the same stink, but everybody complained someone else smelled the worst. "
68 " He saw all those private aspects of me - and I mean not just sexual private parts, but my darker side, my meanness, my pettiness, my self-loathing - all the things I kept hidden. So that with him I was completely naked, and when I was feeling the most vulnerable - when the wrong word would have sent me flying out the door forever - he always said exactly the right thing at the right moment. He didn't allow me to cover myself up. He would grab my hands, look me straight in the eye and tell me something new about why he loved me. "
69 " All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way. "
70 " I am ashamed she is ashamed. Because she is my daughter and I am proud of her, and I am her mother but she is not proud of me. "
71 " But it was the love of a ghost. Arms that encircled but did not touch. A bowl full of rice but without my appetite to eat it. No hunger. No fullness. "
72 " We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. "
73 " The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look!--it is too beautiful to eat. "
74 " I love my shadow, this dark side of me that had my same restless nature. "
75 " In It's Only Temporary, Evan Handler confronts the ambiguities of life backward, forward, and in between. With hilarious honesty he reflects on the realization that we can start over again. It's Only Temporary is a heartfelt book for all of us who are getting younger and older at the same time. "
76 " Chinese people do business, do medicine, do painting. Not lazy like American people. We do torture. Best torture. "
77 " Entonces debes enseñarle esta misma lección a mi hija. Cómo perder la inocencia pero no la esperanza. Cómo reír eternamente. "
78 " Even though I did not understand her entire story, I understood her grief. In one small moment we had both lost the world, and there was no way to get it back. "
79 " I also found out why I should never reveal the "why" to others. A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use. That is the power of chess. It is a game of secrets in which one must show and never tell. "
80 " And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good. "