Amy Tan Quotes About Tigers

Quotes about: Tigers

• So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. the pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes hard and shiny, more clear. And then my fierceness can come back, my golden side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because this is the nature of two tigers. But I will win and giver her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Daughter, Pain

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.252, Penguin

• Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad man left me.

  Amy Tan

  Heart, Men, Two

• Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.

  Amy Tan

  Tree, Waiting, Unseen

• Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.

  Amy Tan

  Eye, Night, Fire

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.246, Penguin

• When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming, no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.

  Amy Tan

  Daughter, Eye, Knowing

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club: A Novel”, p.190, Penguin

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