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81 " Sometimes I wonder if there is such a thing as reality, an objective and untouched nature of being. Or if all that we encounter has already been changed by what we had imagined it to be. If we have dreamed it into being. "
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Mistress of Spices
82 " I closed my eyes and willed my breath to slow, my conscious mind to fold itself inward. I could feel heat pulsing from my daughter's head, her frantic thoughts whirling like broken glass. I loosened my hold on my body and dropped into that whirlpool. "
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , Queen of Dreams
83 " I broke the first rule, the unwritten one, meant not just for warriors but all of us: I took love and used it as a balm to soothe my ego. "
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Palace of Illusions
84 " Distance is a great promoter of harmony: "
85 " Even the wisest don't know what's hidden in the depths of their being "
86 " Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women. "
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , Oleander Girl
87 " The wind blows through him, cleansing. Salt and distance, smell of the deep. "
88 " You aren’t some weak-willed wench. You can control your emotions. Remember all that you’ve survived. Behave like the queen you are. No one can take your dignity away from you. You lose it only by your own actions. "
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Forest of Enchantments
89 " Rakhi likes the comfortable clutter of her life, the things she loves gathered around her like a shawl against the winterliness of the world. "
90 " Even if we love them with our entire being, even if we’re willing to commit the most heinous sin for their well-being. We must understand and respect the values that drive them. We must want what they want, not what we want for them. "
91 " Love. There’s no argument, no matter how strong, that can overcome that word. "
92 " Every person has a heart, but we're not always lucky enough to get a glimpse of it. And every heart, even the hardest, has a fragile spot. If you hit it there, it shatters. "
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , Sister of My Heart (Anju and Sudha #1)
93 " All the way back, I pondered the word endure, what it meant. It didn’t mean giving in. It didn’t mean being weak or accepting injustice. It meant taking the challenges thrown at us and dealing with them as intelligently as we knew until we grew stronger than them. "
94 " A well-meaning man, Dhai Ma liked to say, is more dangerous because he believes in the rightness of what he does. Give me an honest rascal any day! "
95 " Just as we cast off worn clothes and wear new ones, when the time arrives, the soul casts off the body and finds a new one to work out its karma. Therefore the wise grieve neither for the living nor the dead. "
96 " Can our actions change our destiny? Or are they like sand piled against the breakage in a dam, merely delaying the inevitable? "
97 " Loving someone so deeply was dangerous. It made you too vulnerable. "
98 " How pride had kept them from admitting their mistakes—and "
99 " Ah, now I have learned how deep in the human heart vanity lies, vanity which is the other face of the fear of being unloved. "
100 " When your heart is crusted over with your own pain, it is easy to feel little for others. "