I tried to keep very still, but my heart felt like crickets scratching to get out of the cage.
("The Joy Luck Club")
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I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games... Come from the South, blow from the wind -- poom!-- North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen.Amy Tan
It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
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I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness in a place I didn't know was there. I cursed this man aloud so he could hear. You had dog eyes. You jumped and followed whoever called you. Now you chase your own tail.
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Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
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For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.
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God, life changes faster than you think.
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