Because I think to myself, even today, how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites? - Amy Tan

The only thing certain in times of great uncertainty is that people will behave with great strength or weakness, and with very little else in between.

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.

Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.
-An-mei