An Mei Quotes

#1. Auntie An-mei had cried before she left for China, thinking she would make her brother very rich and happy by communist standards. But when she got home, she cried to me that everyone had a palm out and she was the only one who left with an empty hand.

Amy Tan

#2. Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.
-An-mei

Amy Tan

#3. If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever.
-An-mei

Amy Tan

#4. Your life is what you see in front of you.
-An-mei

Amy Tan

#5. You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.
-An-mei

Amy Tan

#6. But I remember the way Jin Ling made her wishes. How she said I wish we could be together forever with the bite of a tigress. Nothing would be impossible enough to keep her wishes from being fulfilled. Not even the walled City.

Ryan Graudin

#7. The braid is always stronger than the strand.

Ryan Graudin

#8. This is my world. Wide and open and waiting.

Ryan Graudin

#9. If you know your enemy as you know your friend," her mother had said when she gave Mei the book, "then there is hope your enemy will become your friend.

Nigel Ashland

#10. We all have scars. From loving someone too deeply. From wanting to protect someone too much.

Kanae Hazuki

#11. But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.
-Jing-mei

Amy Tan

#12. What is China but a people and their stories?

Gene Luen Yang

#13. I won't be what I'm not.
-Jing-mei

Amy Tan

#14. Death is not friendly. It's dark, black where you look at it. You're all alone. But it's no different when you're alive, right? No matter how many relationships we seem to have, we're all alone. - Misaki Mei

Yukito Ayatsuji

#15. To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing.
-Jing-mei

Amy Tan

#16. Cruor pectoris mei, tutela tua est!
Blood of my heart, protection is thine!

Kami Garcia

#17. She'd just gone ice princess on him. As an ice dragon himself, he knew something about frigid.
Mei made frigid look like a balmy day on the equator.

Susannah Scott

#18. But this...her...she's more than warmth. She's fire, a soul, a name. Mei Yee reverbs through my head, my veins. Lodges like shrapnel in the far reaches of my chest. More powerful than a pound of C-4. Uncontrollable.

Ryan Graudin