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Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.

Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.

Amy Tan
Children, Secret, Soup
Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.237, Penguin

I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child.

Amy Tan
Children, Fighting, Saws
Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.183, Penguin

I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?

Amy Tan
Children, Character, Chinese
Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.254, Penguin

I learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out of reach. And by telling myself that there was nothing inside those hopes anyway, I avoided the wounds of deep disappointment. The pain was no worse than the quick sting of a booster shot. And yet thinking about this makes me ache again. How is it that as a child I knew I should have been loved more? Is everyone born with a bottomless emotional resevoir?

Amy Tan
Children, Pain, Disappointment
Amy Tan (1995). “The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel”, p.15, Penguin

I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what I had imagined was a safer place. And hiding in this place, behind my invisible barriers, I knew what lay on the other side: Her side attacks. Her secret weapons. Her uncanny ability to find my weakest spots. But in the brief instant that I had peered over the barriers I could finally see what was finally there: an old woman, a wok for her armor, a knitting needle for her sword, getting a little crabby as she waited patiently for her daughter to invite her in.

Amy Tan
Running, Daughter, Children
Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.183, Penguin

But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.

Amy Tan
Children, Men, People
Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club: A Novel”, p.19, Penguin

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