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  1. Amy Tan _ The Hundred Secret Senses

    I ask myself, How can I relax? How can I let go of everything that's happened? You need complete trust to do that.
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  2. Amy Tan _ The Hundred Secret Senses

    And all that talk about the breakup being good for us- who am I trying to fool? I'm cut loose, untethered, not belonging to anything or anybody.
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  3. Amy Tan _ The Hundred Secret Senses

    Every word, every gesture is now loaded with ambiguity, nothing can be taken at face value. We speak to each other from a safe distance, pretending all the years we soaped each other's backs and pissed in front of each other never happened. We don't use any of the baby talk, code words, or short hand gestures that had been our language of intimacy, the proof that we belonged to each other.
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  4. Amy Tan _ The Hundred Secret Senses

    I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the soul. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true.
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  5. Amy Tan _ The Hundred Secret Senses

    Life's always a big fucking compromise. You don't always get what you want, no matter how smart you are, how hard you work, how good you are. That's a myth. We're all hanging in the best way we can.
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  6. Amy Tan _ The Hundred Secret Senses

    I imagine a hundred Chinese Icaruses, molding wings out of earwax. You can't stop people from wishing.
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  7. Amy Tan _ The Hundred Secret Senses

    A few times I invited Ba to visit me from the World of Yin. But other yin friends tell me he is stuck somewhere else, a foggy place where people believe their lies are true.
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  8. Amy Tan _ The Hundred Secret Senses

    Being able to restrain my emotions isn't a great victory-it's the pitiful proof of lost love.
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  9. Amy Tan _ The Hundred Secret Senses

    It isn't that i consider them brave, they are reckless, unpredictable, maddeningly unreliable. But like rogue waves and shooting stars, they also add thrills to a life that otherwise would be as regular as the tide, as routine as day passing into night.
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  10. Amy Tan _ The Hundred Secret Senses

    . . .the world is not a place but the vastness of the soul. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true. . .And believing in ghosts - that's believing that love never dies. If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.
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  11. Amy Tan _ The Hundred Secret Senses

    When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?"
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  12. Amy Tan _ The Hundred Secret Senses

    It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.
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