The Hundred Secret Senses
Amy Tan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
“Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?”
“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.”
“I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.”
“I learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out of reach. And by telling myself that there was nothing inside those hopes anyway, I avoided the wounds of deep disappointment. The pain was no worse than the quick sting of a booster shot. And yet thinking about this makes me ache again. How is it that as a child I knew I should have been loved more? Is everyone born with a bottomless emotional resevoir? ”
“too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.”
“Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.”
“Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.”
“Love is tricky. It is never mundane or daily. You can never get used to it. You have to walk with it, then let it walk with you. You can never balk. It moves you like the tide. It takes you out to sea, then lays you on the beach again. Today's struggling pain is the foundation for a certain stride through the heavens. You can run from it but you can never say no. It includes everyone.”
“It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.”
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