Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I guess there's a lot we hope for that never happens.

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Promises only lead to trouble.”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Hope not built on reason brings disappointment only.”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“She who sows vengeance must reap its bloody fruit.”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Never choose something because it's easier.

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Often, others see you, as you see yourself

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Each day has a color, a smell.

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Everytime i have turned the page he re-enters my life as awkward as postscript

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“...each person is distinct, separate. That ultimately we are each alone”

— 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

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

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

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Ah, how helpless we children are, how dependent on the whims of adults.”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“And have you come to set me free finally, Govinda?” he asked. “Have I paid sufficiently for my theft?”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Rakhi likes the comfortable clutter of her life, the things she loves gathered around her like a shawl against the winterliness of…

— 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

“And whether my lack of friends and visitors was due not to my father's strictness but due to people's wariness of someone…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Looking down from the heights of Maslow's pyramid, it seems inconceivable to us that someone could actually prefer bread to freedom.”

— 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…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I tried to hold on to this compassion, sensing its preciousness, but even as I reached to grasp it, it dissipated into…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Every person has a heart, but we're not always lucky enough to get a glimpse of it. And every heart, even the…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Begitu lah kadang2 bila kita terjun ke jurang kehidupan kita.Tidak ada yang bisa menemani kita,bahkan mereka yang mau mengorbankan hati mereka demi…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

After the fire, when I'd tried to express my gratitude for their kindness to our customers, they'd been awkward, uncomfortable. My father…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“But when I see Sudha, her face bright with a simple, generous joy, the walls I'd set up so carefully collapse around…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“I closed my eyes and willed my breath to slow, my conscious mind to fold itself inward. I could feel heat pulsing…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Ebb and flow, ebb and flow, our lives. Is that why we're fascinated by the steadfastness of stars? The water reaches my…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware of the…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

the darkness is a cresting wave. It sweeps me up out of my body until I float among the stars, those tine…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“She had always been this way: interested-quite unnecessarily, some would say-in the secrets of strangers. When flying, she always chose a window…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“For men, the softer emotions are always intertwined with power and pride. That was why Karna waited for me to plead with…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“The story hangs in the night air between them. It is very latem, and if father or daugther stepped to the window,…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“May your heart be mine, may my heart be yours. May your sorrows be mine, may my joys be yours.”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Aren't we all pawns in the hands of time, the greatest player of them all?”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“The wind blows through him, cleansing. Salt and distance, smell of the deep.”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Knowing yet not knowing is a strange sensation, like being split in two”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni