All Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes
- Often, others see you, as you see yourself Funny
- Buddha's Wife tells a fascinating story, little known in the west, about the woman whom Buddha left behind. Gabriel Constans focuses the reader's attention on… Attention
- Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women. Girl
- I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware of the importance of the… American
- Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi) Actors
- I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it! Buoyant
- 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… Center
- 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… Bins
- 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… Chili
- Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain. Air
- Each day has a color, a smell. Color
- Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to… Aged
- Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon. Bean
- ...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… Cool
- The dream is not a drug but a way. Listen to where it can take you. Dream
- 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… Change
- Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment? History
- Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don't, it turns gangrenous and kills you. . .… Break
- 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… Binding
- 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… Accompany