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“Well, let me tell you, your recollection of every last detail has nothing to do with memory. It's called holding a goddamn grudge. ...

That's what I remember the most, not addresses but pain - that old lump-in-the-throat conviction that the world had fingered me for abuse and neglect. Is that the same as a grudge?”
― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

“Later, Miss Banner pointed to a man trying to squeeze a barrel that was too large through a doorway that was too small. "Hope." Miss Banner said. But to me, this was not hope, this was stupidity, rice for brains. ... I wondered whether foreigners had feelings that were entirely different from those of Chinese people. Did they think all our hopes were stupid?”
― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

“I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the soul. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true. I once thought love was supposed to be nothing but bliss. I now know it is also worry and grief, hope and trust. And believing in ghosts - that's believing that love never dies. If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.”
― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

“Too much happiness, said the man who returned, always overflows into tears of sorrow.”
― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses