How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently? How can you think everyone can be a hero,… - Amy Tan

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.

The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look! — it is too beautiful to eat.

I was the daughter of my father's wife. I spoke in a trembly voice. I became pale, ill, and more thin. I let myself become a wounded animal. I let the hunter come to me and turn me into a tiger ghost. I willingly gave up my chi , the spirit that caused me so much pain.
Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.