The Valley of Amazement Quotes

“Hardships can harden even the best person.”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“Suffer more now, suffer less later.”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“...I owed her a debt of gratitude. More than gratitude, much more.
I could finally see what had always been there. She had been more than an attendant, more than a friend, more than a sister. She had been a mother to me. She had worried, sought to protect me from danger, guided me toward the best. She had looked out for my future, assessed the worthiness of everyone to be in my life. And in that way, she had taken me as her purpose in life, the one who gave her meaning. I had a constant love all along. And in recognizing that, I felt moved to tears.
"How could you step out of my life?" I told her. "if you do don't join me, I will be lost. No one would worry about me as much as you. No one knows me better, knows my past and what this new life means. I should have told you a long time ago." I became teary-eyed. She kept her lips sealed, but her jaw was trembling. "You are the only loyal person in my life, the only one I can trust."
Tears fell from her eyes. "Now you know. I was always the only one."
"We love each other," I said with a light laugh. "In spite of all the trouble I've given you, you stayed with me. So it must be that you loved me like a mother.”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“I, not anyone else can travel that road for you.             You must travel if by yourself.             It is not far. It is within reach.             Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.             Perhaps it is everywhere—on water and land.”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“The life we receive is not always what we choose.”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“To keep false hopes is to prolong misery.”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“Our love would be solace, companionship, and the mending of wounds.”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“i'm not saying fate happens without blame. but when fate turns out well, everyone should forget the bad road that got us here.”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“Accept love when it is offered, Violet. Return love and not suspicion. Then you'll receive more. - Loyalty Tang”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“Do you know what morals are Violet? They're other people's rules. Do you know what a conscience is? Freedom to use your own intelligence to determine what is right or wrong. You possess that freedom and no one can remove it from you”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“Teddy once told me that it's natural that we feel alone, and that's because our hearts are different from others and we don't even know how. When we're in love, as if by magic, our different hearts come together perfectly toward the same desire. Eventually, the differences return, and then comes heartache and mending, and, in between, much loneliness and fear. If love remains despite the pain of those differences, it must be guarded as rare...”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“Whenever others disapprove of you, you must disregard them and be the only”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“Even when I worked in that world, I still wanted love so strong that the man would have no interest in another woman. Maybe you will always be incapable of giving that kind of love. You tell me I want too much. And maybe I do. But like you and your imagination, I can't help but be that way.”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“Fate changes when you change your clothes.”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“The best life you can have as you get into old age is good food, good teeth to eat it with, and few worries when you go to bed at night.”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“Later they will remember those moments with you. But they are not memories of you, but the feeling they were immortal because you made them gods.”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“A moment is not the same as time.”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“Maybe the kind of love that would comfort me did not exist. Perhaps I expected too much of love and no one existed who could ever meet my unceasing and bottomless need for it.”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“If I stopped running and stood still, I would be accepting that what I had was all I would ever have. And then I would no longer be lost, because there would nowhere else to go”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“The moment is altered as soon as I try to capture it, so for me, it’s impossible.” How true, I thought. Moments are gone as soon as you think about them.”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“This Shanghai was not a place but a feeling of contentment. I was returning with myself whole and unbroken—limbs, mind, and spirit. I had discarded pride,”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“I hope you don’t suffer forever from keeping love from your heart”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“when fate turns out well, everyone should forget the bad road that got us here.”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“I felt as if I were running in a labyrinth, chasing after something I could not see yet knew was important. I sensed it was just ahead, and then it would go around a corner, and I would be lost. I would have to decide what to do next, where to go, and what I needed to get out of that confusing place. If I stopped running and stood still, I would be accepting that what I had was all I would ever have. And then I would no longer be lost, because there would be nowhere else to go.”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“Our meeting each other could not possibly be as random as two leaves from two trees being blown together.”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“Teddy once told me that it’s natural that we feel alone, and that’s because our hearts are different from others and we don’t even know how. When we’re in love, as if by magic, our different hearts come together perfectly toward the same desire. Eventually, the differences return, and then comes heartache and mending, and, in between, much loneliness and fear. If love remains despite the pain of those differences, it must be guarded as rare. That’s what Teddy said and that’s what we had.”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“What I realized about the dreamland, however, was the power it once held simply by being withheld from me. It created yearning—and also purpose. It demanded the best of me to meet my purpose: diligence, intelligence, and an understanding of”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“Quiero que nuestro amor sea tan grande que nos duela por dentro”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement

“I was returning with myself whole and unbroken—limbs, mind, and spirit. I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance”
― Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement