21 quotes
For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
The Joy Luck Club (1989)
I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.
The Joy Luck Club (1989)
I have always known a thing before it happens.
The Joy Luck Club (1989)
Why are you attracted only to Chinese nonsense?
The Joy Luck Club (1989)
It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.
The Joy Luck Club (1989)
Your father is not my first husband. You are not those babies.
The Joy Luck Club (1989)
I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.
The Joy Luck Club (1989)
Now that I'm angry at Harold, it's hard to remember what was so remarkable about him.
The Joy Luck Club (1989)
I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?
The Joy Luck Club (1989)
Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.
The Joy Luck Club (1989)
Over the years, she told me the same story, except for the ending, which grew darker, casting long shadows into her life, and eventually into mine.
The Joy Luck Club (1989)
Look at this face. Do you see my foolish hope?
The Joy Luck Club (1989)
Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.
The Joy Luck Club (1989)
I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won'ts. I won't let her change me, I promised myself. I won't be what I'm not.
The Joy Luck Club (1989)
After the gold was removed from my body I felt lighter, more free. They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.
The Joy Luck Club (1989)
I was no longer scared. I could see what was inside me.
The Joy Luck Club (1989)
I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child...
The Joy Luck Club (1989)
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 Joy Luck Club (1989)
When I want something to happen — or not happen — I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.
I found the opportunity.
The Joy Luck Club (1989)
Only two kind of daughters. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter!
The Joy Luck Club (1989)