Làm ơn, hãy để tôi đưa bạn về nhà. Bạn đang say. Tôi đẩy anh ta, làm đổ một loại chất độc ngon miệng vào anh ta. Hãy về nhà và có một thời gian hoang dã với cô Scarlet. Trong phòng ngủ. Với – – Được rồi, bạn đang bắt đầu nói chuyện trên bảng. Hãy về nhà, em yêu. Tôi sẽ đưa bạn vào giường.
It’s not that we had no heart or eyes for pain. We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable…What was worse, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness?”So we decided to hold parties and pretend each week had become the new year. Each week we could forget past wrongs done to us. We weren’t allowed to think a bad thought. We feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. And each week we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our only joy. And that’s how we came to call our little parties Joy Luck.
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club