Amy Tan Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

  Amy Tan

  Heart, Remember You, Remembers You

  Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.267, Penguin

• I saw a girl complaining that the pain of not being seen was unbearable... Now I have perfect understanding. I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worse possible thing.

  Amy Tan

  Girl, Pain, Perfect

• I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn't really mean I was a failure, and I really meant I would try to respect her opinions more. But listening to Auntie Lin tonight reminds me once agian: My mother and I never really understood one another. We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what was said, while my mother heard more. No doubt she told Auntie Lin I was going back to school to get a doctorate.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, School, Mean

• I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.

  Amy Tan

  Understanding, Firsts, Remember

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.19, Penguin

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