Best 6 quotes in «the joy luck club quotes» category

I am crying now, sobbing and laughing at the same time, seeing but not understanding this loyalty to my mother

I am ashamed she is ashamed. Because she is my daughter and I am proud of her, and I am her mother but she is not proud of me.

Even if I could live forever,” she said to the baby, “I still don’t know which way I would teach you. I was once so free and innocent. I too laughed for no reason." “But later I threw away my foolish innocence to protect myself. And then I taught my daughter, your mother, to shed her innocence so she would not be hurt as well.

I asked myself, what is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?

The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look!--it is too beautiful to eat.

I learned about opening moves and why it's important to control the center early on; the shortest distance between two points is straight down the middle.