In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
source: Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.254, Penguin
topic: America, Giving, Joy Luck Club

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.
source: Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.142, Penguin
topic: Mother, Believe, Joy Luck Club
source: Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.121, Penguin
topic: Fate, Illusion, Joy Luck Club
source: Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club: A Novel”, p.222, Penguin
topic: Blood, Chinese, Joy Luck Club
what you don't know, you don't miss
source: Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated
topic: Missing, Twists, Joy Luck Club, Drawn Together, Drinking Tea
source: Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.254, Penguin
topic: Children, Character, Chinese, Joy Luck Club
source: Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.191, Penguin
topic: Girl, Mother, Running, Joy Luck Club, Strong Winds
Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
topic: Fate, Expectations, Half, Joy Luck Club, Inattention
topic: Play, Use, Want, Joy Luck Club, Using Me
source: Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club: A Novel”, p.161, Penguin
topic: Jesus, Thinking, Quality, Joy Luck Club
Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.
topic: Pain, Flesh, Young, Joy Luck Club
topic: Daughter, Laughing, Forever, Joy Luck Club
I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child...
topic: Children, Fighting, Saws, Joy Luck Club, Knitting Needles
topic: Fate, Thinking, Expectations, Joy Luck Club, Faith In Love
topic: Lying, Passion, Men, Joy Luck Club, Darkness Within
I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.
topic: Opportunity, Events, Looks, Joy Luck Club
topic: Vomiting, Remember, Wonder, Joy Luck Club
topic: Mother, Fate, Thinking, Joy Luck Club
topic: Mother, New Year, Years, Joy Luck Club
But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei
topic: Regret, Get Better, Way, Joy Luck Club
topic: Beautiful, Strong, Wind, Joy Luck Club
topic: Running, Daughter, Selfish, Joy Luck Club, Selfish Desire
topic: Wish, Despair, Unbearable, Joy Luck Club
And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.
source: Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.144, Penguin
topic: Song, Two, Half, Joy Luck Club