Amy Tan Quotes

It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.

The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself

She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.

A man is hid under his tongue.

I stay hidden. I'm sort of hard to find.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

I spend most of my life not wanting to be found, and actually, I'm pretty good at it.

All my work's been disguise, really: hiding behind the character.

I felt that just looking at the world in general, there are so many types of people, and some hide who they truly are. And I feel that every person has some kind of warped identity inside them that they decide if they want to show or not.

I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.

Obscurity brings safety.

-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.

For all these years I kept my mouth closed so selfish desires would not fall out. And because I remained quiet for so long now my daughter does not hear me... All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. And because I moved so secretly now my daughter does not see me... We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing; unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

People don't know my real self, and they're not about to find out.

I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark.

The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.

The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.

You win when no one finds you, even if they're not looking.

Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.

Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many fools to hide behind his too-appropriate order to assume leadership of the forces of stupidity he has marshalled, or his enemies will unmask him in order to better understand the disease that has produced such a warped and twisted mind.

I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!

There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it.

I am almost equal to a shadow.