And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't know why something that made me so happy then f… - Amy Tan

Our love would be solace, companionship, and the mending of wounds.

i'm not saying fate happens without blame. but when fate turns out well, everyone should forget the bad road that got us here.

"It's not that we had no heart or eyes for pain. We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable...What was worse, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness?
"So we decided to hold parties and pretend each week had become the new year. Each week we could forget past wrongs done to us. We weren't allowed to think a bad thought. We feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. And each week we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our only joy. And that's how we came to call our little parties Joy Luck.