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  1. Amy Tan _ The Bonesetter's Daughter

    ¿Qué es el pasado si no aquello que elegimos recordar?
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  2. Amy Tan _ The Bonesetter's Daughter

    Una persona ha de reflexionar sobre el origen de las cosas. Cada comienzo conduce a un fin determinado.
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  3. Amy Tan _ The Bonesetter's Daughter

    In all these years we've been together," he said, "I don't think I know an important part of you. You keep secrets inside you. You hide. It's as though I've never seen you naked, and I've had to imagine what you look like behind the drapes.""I'm not consciously hiding anything." After Ruth said that, she wondered whether it was true. Then again, who revealed everything - the irritations, the fears? How tiresome that would be. What did he mean by secrets?"I want us to be intimate. I want to know what you want. Not just with us, but from life. What makes you happiest? Are you doing what you want to do?
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  4. Amy Tan _ The Bonesetter's Daughter

    Precious Auntie, what is our name? I always meant to claim it as my own. Come help me remember. I'm not a little girl anymore. I'm not afraid of ghosts. Are you still mad at me? Don't you recognize me? I am LuLing, your daughter.
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  5. Amy Tan _ The Bonesetter's Daughter

    What do you think was the very first sound to become a word, a meaning?' ... And then I realized what the first word must have been: ma, the sound of a baby smacking its lips in search of her mother's breast. Ma, ma, ma. Then the mother decided that was her name and she began to speak, too. She taught the baby to be careful: sky, fire, tiger. A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.
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  6. Amy Tan _ The Bonesetter's Daughter

    The farther you move from the core of the problem, the faster the situation spins out of control.
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  7. Amy Tan _ The Bonesetter's Daughter

    Free time was the most precious time, when you should be doing what you loved, or at least slowing down enough to remember what made your life worthwhile and happy.
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  8. Amy Tan _ The Bonesetter's Daughter

    That is the problem with modern ink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn. But when you push an inkstick along an inkstone, you take the first step to cleansing your mind and your heart. You push and you ask yourself, What are my intentions? What is in my heart that matches my mind? I"
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  9. Amy Tan _ The Bonesetter's Daughter

    Forever did not mean what it once had. Forever was what changed inevitably over time.
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  10. Amy Tan _ The Bonesetter's Daughter

    Dementia. Ruth puzzled over the diagnosis: How could such a beautiful-sounding word apply to such a destructive disease? It was a name befitting a goddess: Dementia, who caused her sister Demeter to forget to turn winter into spring.
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  11. Amy Tan _ The Bonesetter's Daughter

    All objects exist in a moment of time."
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  12. Amy Tan _ The Bonesetter's Daughter

    You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.
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