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1. "Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
2. "She lifts a bowl of kheer and her thoughts, flittering like dusty sparrows in a brown back alley, turn a sudden kingfisher blue." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
3. "I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!" ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4. "Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
5. "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." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
6. "Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)" ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
7. "Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified.'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
8. "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
9. "they say in the old tales that when a man and woman exchange looks the way we did, their spirits mingle. their gaze is a rope of gold binding each other. even if they never meet again, they carry a little of the other with them always. they can never forget, and they can never be wholly happy again" ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
10. "Everytime i have turned the page he re-enters my life as awkward as postscript" ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
11. "But maybe as I get older, I begin to see beauty where I least expected it before." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
12. "Above us our palace waits, the only one I've ever needed. Its walls are space, its floor is sky, its center everywhere. We rise; the shapes cluster around us in welcome, dissolving and forming again like fireflies in a summer evening." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
13. "...this time I didn't launch into my usual tirade. Was it a memory of Krishna, the cool silence with which he countered disagreement, that stopped me? I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
14. "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
15. "How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?" ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
16. "In life, it's best not to take anything for free - unless it's from someone who wishes you well." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
17. "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
18. "She who sows vengeance must reap its bloody fruit." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
19. "There was an unexpected freedom in ?nding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!" ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
20. "A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
21. "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
22. "Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when their dream coincides with ours, the way two cutout designs laid one on top of the other might match. But dream worlds are not static like cutouts; sooner or later they change shape, leading to misunderstanding, loneliness and loss of love." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
23. "The dream is not a drug but a way. Listen to where it can take you." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
24. "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
25. "I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy. I would use my strength instead to nurture my belief that my life would unfurl uniquely." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
26. "Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help us." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
27. "...don't create snakes out of ropes. You have enough to worry about." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
28. "Begitu lah kadang2 bila kita terjun ke jurang kehidupan kita.Tidak ada yang bisa menemani kita,bahkan mereka yang mau mengorbankan hati mereka demi kebahagian kita,juga tidak." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
29. "Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?" ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
30. "Aren't we all pawns in the hands of time, the greatest player of them all?" ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
31. "Knowing yet not knowing is a strange sensation, like being split in two" ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
32. "Hope not built on reason brings disappointment only." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
33. "The story hangs in the night air between them. It is very latem, and if father or daugther stepped to the window, tehyw ould see the Suktara, star of the impending dawn, hanging low in the sky. But they keep sitting at the table, each thinking of the story differently, as teller and listener always must. In the mind of each, different images swirl up and fall away, and each holds on to a different part of the story, thinking it the most important. And if each were to speak what it meant, they would say things so different you would not know it wa sthe same story they were speaking of." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
34. "The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
35. "May your heart be mine, may my heart be yours. May your sorrows be mine, may my joys be yours." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
36. "Because it is the lot of mothers to remember what no one else cares to, Mrs. Dutta thinks. To tell them over and over until they are lodged, perforce, in family lore. We are the keepers of the heart's dusty corners." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
37. "Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
38. "Truth, like diamond, has many facets." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
39. "Each day has a color, a smell." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
40. "Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
41. "After the fire, when I'd tried to express my gratitude for their kindness to our customers, they'd been awkward, uncomfortable. My father had had to explain to me that giving thanks is not a common practice in India.'Then how do you know if people appreciated what you did?' I'd asked.'Do you really need to know?' my father had asked back." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
42. "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
43. "I tried to hold on to this compassion, sensing its preciousness, but even as I reached to grasp it, it dissipated into wisps. No revelation can endure unless it is bolstered by a calm pure mind- and I'm afraid I didn't possess that." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
44. "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
45. "the darkness is a cresting wave. It sweeps me up out of my body until I float among the stars, those tine bright pores on the sky's skin. If only I could pass through them, I would end up on the other side, the right side, shadowless, perfectly illuminated, beyond the worries of this mundane world" ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
46. "You could also call it waking,' Krishna continues. 'Or intermission, as one scene in a play ends and the next hasn't yet begun." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
47. "...each person is distinct, separate. That ultimately we are each alone" ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
48. "...the bird began to carry them to a new life in a new land. We'll be happy ever after, the queen wanted to whisper to her daughter as they flew, but she knew that was not true. Life never is that way. And so instead she held her daughter in silence, heart to heart, and as they traveled each heart drew on the other's strength, so that when they reached their destination they would be ready." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
49. "Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
50. "The wind blows through him, cleansing. Salt and distance, smell of the deep." ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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