Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Short Quotes

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Don't create snakes out of ropes. You have enough to worry about.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The dream is not a drug but a way. Listen to where it can take you.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path, All they do is trip you up

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable—but I always was so, only I never knew it!

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
In life, it's best not to take anything for free - unless it's from someone who wishes you well.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Because ultimately only the witness — and not the actors — knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people.... Fennel... smelling of changes to come.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

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I liked his voice, rich and unself-conscious even when he forgot words and hummed to fill in the gap. What I didn't understand, I imagined, and thus it became a love song.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack of our existence and shake it inside out. Day of suicide, day of murder.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Or perhaps it is just that desire lies at the heart of human existence. When we turn away from one desire, we must find another to cleave to with all our strength —or else we die.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don't, it turns gangrenous and kills you.... But sometimes words can break a feeling into pieces.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni