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Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club Quotes: You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.
         

You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.


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You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.
         



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Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.



Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.



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.

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.



That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.

That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.



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When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he's thinking of pulling up roots.



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.

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.



Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.



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This page presents the quote "You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.". Author of this quote is Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club. This quote is about dark, light, desperation,.