“I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.”

Amy Tan

“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”

Amy Tan

“Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?”

Amy Tan

“Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.”

Amy Tan

“Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?”

Amy Tan