Amy Tan Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.

  Amy Tan

  Hope, Expectations, Soul

• Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls

  Amy Tan

  Teenager, Soul, Sometimes

  Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.20, Penguin

• I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.

  Amy Tan

  Moving, Thinking, Knowing

  "The Hundred Secret Senses". Book by Amy Tan, October 17, 1995.

• She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, one from this direction, another form behind, more and more, until his looks, his character, his soul would have eroded away . . . I was afraid that some unseen speck of truth would fly into my eye, blur what I was seeing and transform him from the divine man I thought he was into someone quite mundane, mortally wounded with tiresome habits and irritating imperfections.

  Amy Tan

  Character, Eye, Men

• On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, New Year, Years

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.240, Penguin

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