The Bonesetter's Daughter
Amy Tan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
“That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.”
“After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?”
“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.”
“What is the past but what we choose to remember?”
“You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.”
“But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want.”
“They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.”
“He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity.”
“So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.”
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Book Keywords:
past, simple, mothers, love, beginning, history, memory, mystery
