If you asked me how I felt when they told me I would marry … - Amy Tan

" "
If you asked me how I felt when they told me I would marry Wen Fu, I can say only this: It was like being told I had won a big prize. And it was also like being told my head was going to be chopped off. Something between those two feelings.

Amy Tan

This quote has a book source. Sign up to see titles and page references

English

Collect this quote

About Amy Tan

Amy Ruth Tan (譚恩美 Tán Ēnměi) (born 19 February 1952) is a Chinese-American writer and member of the Rock Bottom Remainders, most famous for her novel The Joy Luck Club.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Amy Ruth Tan

All quotes from Amy Tan Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Amy Tan:

Margaret Atwood Louise Erdrich Isabel Allende Khaled Hosseini Haruki Murakami

Additional quotes by Amy Tan

Writing is the witness to myself about myself. Whatever others say of me or how they interpret me is a simulacrum of their own devising.

We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.
-Suyuan

Suffer more now, suffer less later.

If you asked me how I felt when they told me I would marry Wen Fu, I can say only this: It was like being told I had won a big prize. And it was also… - Amy Tan

About Amy Tan

Also Known As

Try QuoteGPT

Additional quotes by Amy Tan

Advanced Search Filters