Amy Tan

The Joy Luck Club

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  • Refiloe Masitahas quotedyesterday
    Too much water and you flowed in too many directions,
  • Refiloe Masitahas quotedyesterday
    Too much fire and you had a bad temper.
  • Refiloe Masitahas quotedyesterday
    Too little wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people's ideas, unable to stand on your own
  • zoeyhas quoted2 years ago
    "Bad wife!" she cried. "If you refuse to sleep with my son, I refuse to feed you or clothe you." So that's how I knew what my husband had said to avoid his mother's anger. I was also boiling with anger, but I said nothing, remembering my promise to my parents to be an obedient wife.
  • zoeyhas quoted2 years ago
    He had no desire for me, but it was his fear that made me think he had no desire for any woman. He was like a little boy who had never grown up
  • zoeyhas quoted2 years ago
    I was surprised at what I saw. I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind.
  • zoeyhas quoted2 years ago
    What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?
  • zoeyhas quoted2 years ago
    I wondered why my destiny had been decided, why I should have an unhappy life so someone else could have a happy one.
  • zoeyhas quoted2 years ago
    "It's no use," my mother would say. "We have made a contract. It cannot be broken." And I would cry even harder.
  • zoeyhas quoted2 years ago
    Of course, now I know the tree-trunk lady was the old village matchmaker, and the other was Huang Taitai, the mother of the boy I would be forced to marry.

    being asian

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