Amy Tan Way Quotations

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.

But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei

When you lose your face..., it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.

It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.

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.

And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't know why something that made me so happy then feels so sad now. Maybe that is the way it is with the best memories.

So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.