Amy Tan

"A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery."

"It felt like all the truth got whitewashed with fake happiness,' she said, 'only it was not happy and it was worse than fake. It was dangerous."

"I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success."

"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."