the joy luck club key quotes Flashcards
Lindo: I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents’ promise. …
…This means nothing to you, because to you promises mean nothing.
Lindo: That candle was a marriage bond …
… it meant I couldn’t divorce and I could never remarry…
June 1: I can never remember things …
…I didn’t understand in the first place.
June 1: made me feel my mother and I spoke two different languages, …
…which we did. I talked to her in English, she answered back in Chinese.’
June 1: They must wonder how someone …
…like me can take my mother’s place.
June 1: My mother and I never really understood one another…
…I seemed to hear less than what was said, while my mother heard more
June 2: America was where all my …
…mother’s hopes lay
June 2: I saw what seemed to be the prodigy side of me …
…The girl staring back at me was angry, powerful.
June 2: I won’t be …
…what I’m not
June 2: Maybe I never really gave …
…myself a fair chance
June 2: You want me to be someone that I’m not!” I sobbed. …
…I wish I were dead! Like them
June 2: after seeing my mother’s disappointed face once again, …
…something inside of me began to die
June 3: I guess my mother’s telling me …
…I’m still worth something.
June 3: That’s the way Chinese mothers show they love their children, …
…not through hugs and kisses but with stern offerings
June 3: Only you …
…pick that crab
