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“That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.”
― The Joy Luck Club
― The Joy Luck Club
“If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever.
-An-mei”
― The Joy Luck Club
-An-mei”
― The Joy Luck Club
“We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.”
― The Joy Luck Club
― The Joy Luck Club
“Each person is made of five different elements, she told me.
Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was like my father, whom my mother always critized for his cigarette habit and who always shouted back that she should feel guilty that he didn't let my mother speak her mind.
Too little wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people's ideas, unable to stand on your own. This was like my Auntie An-mei.
Too much water and you flowed in too many different directions. like myself.”
― The Joy Luck Club
Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was like my father, whom my mother always critized for his cigarette habit and who always shouted back that she should feel guilty that he didn't let my mother speak her mind.
Too little wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people's ideas, unable to stand on your own. This was like my Auntie An-mei.
Too much water and you flowed in too many different directions. like myself.”
― The Joy Luck Club
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