Quote

Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.

Amy Tan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Lays
Neither
Became
Tree
Pounced
Waiting
Tiger
Spirit
Tigers
Unseen
Trees

More quotes by Amy Tan

Image
Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.
Amy Tan
Image
Chaos is the penance for leisure.
Amy Tan
Image
If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.
Amy Tan
Image
My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
Amy Tan
Image
Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with
Amy Tan
Image
All objects exist in a moment of time.
Amy Tan
Image
If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei
Amy Tan
Image
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
Amy Tan
Image
To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing. -Jing-mei
Amy Tan
Image
Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.
Amy Tan
Image
I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left.
Amy Tan
Image
Dementia was like a truth serum.
Amy Tan
Image
My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the world of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco.
Amy Tan
Image
Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together, sitting side by side, lifting off, moving West to reach the East.
Amy Tan
Image
Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so.
Amy Tan
Image
I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.
Amy Tan
Image
My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.
Amy Tan
Image
My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.
Amy Tan
Image
How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?
Amy Tan
Image
They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.
Amy Tan