Amy Tan

"A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place."

- Amy Tan

"We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming—well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate."

- Amy Tan

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

- Amy Tan

"We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate."

- Amy Tan

"When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it’s all part of making sense of who I am."

- Amy Tan

"You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them."

- Amy Tan

"In America, nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you."

- Amy Tan

"Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad man left me."

- Amy Tan

"Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward."

- Amy Tan

"Free time was the most precious time when you should be doing what you loved, or at least slowing down enough to remember what made your life worthwhile and happy."

- Amy Tan

"With each passing day, I didn’t lose hope. I fought to have more."

- Amy Tan

"If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude."

- Amy Tan