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41 " She who sows vengeance must reap its bloody fruit. "
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Palace of Illusions
42 " Aren't we all pawns in the hands of time, the greatest player of them all? "
43 " Everytime i have turned the page he re-enters my life as awkward as postscript "
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , Sister of My Heart (Anju and Sudha #1)
44 " ...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. "
45 " A situation in itself,” he said, “is neither happy nor unhappy. It’s only your response to it that causes your sorrow. "
46 " 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. "
47 " Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help us. "
48 " 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 , Queen of Dreams
49 " I guess there's a lot we hope for that never happens. "
50 " 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. "
51 " 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. "
52 " In life, it's best not to take anything for free - unless it's from someone who wishes you well. "
53 " A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.” I "
54 " 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 , The Mistress of Spices
55 " Tomorrow is another day. I've got plenty of things to worry about right now. "
56 " 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. "
57 " ...don't create snakes out of ropes. You have enough to worry about. "
58 " 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. "
59 " time is the great eraser, both of sorrow and of joy. "
60 " Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible. "
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , Oleander Girl