"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