Frases célebres de Amy Tan
“Sólo recuerdas lo que quieres recordar. Sólo sabes lo que tu corazón te permite saber.”
Amy Tan libro Saving Fish from Drowning
Saving Fish from Drowning
Amy Tan Frases y Citas
“¿Qué es el pasado si no aquello que elegimos recordar?”
Amy Tan libro The Bonesetter's Daughter
The Bonesetter's Daughter
“Quiero que nuestro amor sea tan grande que nos duela por dentro”
Amy Tan libro The Valley of Amazement
The Valley of Amazement
Amy Tan The Kitchen God's Wife
Texto original en inglés: «Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.»
Fuente: Tan, Amy. The Kitchen God's Wife. Editorial Penguin, 2006. ISBN 978-11-0100-715-0.
Fuente: Capítulo I, The shop of the gods, de The Kitchen God's Wife.
Fuente: Comienzo del capítulo I del Club de la Buena Estrella.
Hablando de la abuela, sobre la que escribió el libro El valle del asombro.
Se refiere a la historia sobre su vida en China que la madre contaba a la hija.
Fuente: Capítulo I del Club de la Buena Estrella.
Hablando de la abuela, sobre la que escribió el libro El valle del asombro.
Amy Tan: Frases en inglés
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
Fuente: The Joy Luck Club
“Your life is what you see in front of you.
-An-mei”
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
Fuente: The Joy Luck Club
“too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.”
Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses
Fuente: The Hundred Secret Senses
“For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.”
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
Fuente: The Joy Luck Club
“Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.”
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
Fuente: The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
Fuente: The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
Fuente: The Joy Luck Club
“To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing.
-Jing-mei”
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
Fuente: The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses
Fuente: The Hundred Secret Senses
Amy Tan The Kitchen God's Wife
Fuente: The Kitchen God's Wife
“What is the past but what we choose to remember?”
Amy Tan libro The Bonesetter's Daughter
Variante: After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
Fuente: The Bonesetter's Daughter
“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.”
Amy Tan libro The Bonesetter's Daughter
Fuente: The Bonesetter's Daughter
“Chaos is the penance for leisure.”
Amy Tan libro The Bonesetter's Daughter
Fuente: The Bonesetter's Daughter
“Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.”
Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses
Fuente: The Kitchen God's Wife (1991), p. 9
Fuente: The Hundred Secret Senses
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
Fuente: The Joy Luck Club
“I was no longer scared. I could see what was inside me.”
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
Fuente: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 3, pg. 59
“We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.”
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
Fuente: The Joy Luck Club
“You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.”
Amy Tan libro The Bonesetter's Daughter
Fuente: The Bonesetter's Daughter
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
Fuente: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 8, pg. 142
“If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?”
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
Fuente: The Joy Luck Club
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