#thelitbit // The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
A story of mothers and daughters on -
Learning how to find peace between two generations and two cultures.
Getting a grasp on how the past has shaped your today and could shape your future.
To find that value in the past and its lessons and also value what you have here and now and the family that loves and shapes you.
How someone so close to you can know so much about you if you just take the time to connect.
And exploring how to find that balance between the old and the new, developing an understanding of each and how you’ll take those learnings to make it your own moving forward.
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Noteworthy excerpts:
"But you can’t stay in the dark for so long. Something inside of you starts to fade and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light....Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?"
"What was worse, we asked among ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness?"
"And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation."
"If she doesn’t speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn’t try, she can lose her chance forever. "
“I would always remember my parents’ wishes, but I would never forget myself.”
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