Amy Tan Quotes

What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! And that's just where we can't get, nohow.

I told him that I loved him and that I'd always love him and I felt like a child who throws a centavo into a fountain and then she has to tell someone her most extraordinary wish even though she knows that the wish should be kept secret and that, in telling it, she is quite probably losing it. He replied that I was not to worry, that the penny could come out of the fountain again and again and again.

She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.

Don't you wish we could pick the people we love?" "Yeah," I say. "Or just make the people we love want the same things we want.

When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

What we want is not always what we need.

What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all

He pulled away to say he's sorry, and she shook her head no, because even though she really want him to be sorry, she wanted to kiss him more.

The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain.

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

Sadly, I really want to be Batman ... and I just never will be.

I gave my hero a talent I'd love to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?

So the desire you have, that itch that you have to be whatever it is you want to be ... that itch, that desire for good is God’s proof to you sent already to indicate that it’s yours. You already have it. Claim it.

Oswald: "All your life" Aurore: "What?" Oswald: "All your life, isn't that what you wanted to know? How long I loved you?" Aurore: "Well, yes, I suppose I did, but that wasn't what I was going to ask just now." Oswald: "I tell you I've loved you since the day you were born, and you tell me you want to know something else. There's no one quite like you, is there, Aurore?

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

What does it say?" I said, when I had. She said, "It is filled with all the words for how I want you...Look.

I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine

Don't wish. Don't Start. Wishing only wounds the heart.

You'll never get what you really want. All you can do is give what you really want!

Night can't cloak your scarlet dream. Accept Desire's call.

I like what I like, I am who I am, I know what I want to do, you know what I'm saying?