Quote

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

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
Time
Upon
Desires
Think
Desire
Lovely
Thinking
Felt
Seemed
Cocoon
Life
Another
Rose
Cocoons
Cannot
Comfortable
Worries
Look
Inside
Silk
Looks
Worry
Soft
Whole
Lying
Fears

More quotes by Amy Tan

Image
It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.
Amy Tan
Image
You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.
Amy Tan
Image
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
Amy Tan
Image
Your only shame is to have shame.
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
You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.
Amy Tan
Image
I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.
Amy Tan
Image
When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming, no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.
Amy Tan
Image
Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
Amy Tan
Image
I have always known a thing before it happens.
Amy Tan
Image
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
Image
What is a secret wish? It is what you want but cannot ask.
Amy Tan
Image
Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
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
And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.
Amy Tan
Image
Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.
Amy Tan
Image
Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.
Amy Tan
Image
how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?
Amy Tan
Image
Shanghainese people are good negotiators, they're very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that - very competitive. That becomes part of your personality, Shanghai personality becomes part of yours.
Amy Tan
Image
We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.
Amy Tan