Maybe all Americans who suffer from melancholy act as if they have gone mad. But I truly thought he might throw himself — Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement
Maybe all Americans who suffer from melancholy act as if they have gone mad. But I truly thought he might throw himself — Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement
Maybe all Americans who suffer from melancholy act as if they have gone mad. But I truly thought he might throw himself — Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement
Maybe all Americans who suffer from melancholy act as if they have gone mad. But I truly thought he might throw himself — Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement
Maybe all Americans who suffer from melancholy act as if they have gone mad. But I truly thought he might throw himself — Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement
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Maybe all Americans who suffer from melancholy act as if they have gone mad. But I truly thought he might throw himself in the river, and I don't want his ghost visiting to keep telling me he's sorry.

— Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement
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