Amy Tan Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

  Amy Tan

  Love, Pain, Years

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.67, Penguin

• 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.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Father, Ideas

• What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?... And then I realized it was the first time I could see the power of the wind. I couldn't see the wind itself, but I could see it carried water that filled the rivers and shaped the countryside.

  Amy Tan

  Color, Wind, Rivers

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.58, Penguin

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