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“All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

“Americans don’t really look at one another when talking. They talk to their reflections. They look at others or themselves only when they think nobody is watching. So they never see how they really look. They see themselves smiling without their mouth open, or turned to the side where they cannot see their faults.”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

“Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in surprise to see, at last, her long-cherished wish.”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

“What was worse, we asked among ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness?”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club