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101 " In the things we love lie clues to who we are. What we want for those we love. "
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , Oleander Girl
102 " And finally, I bless my daughters, who are yet unborn. I pray that, if life tests them—as sooner or later life is bound to do—they’ll be able to stand steadfast and think carefully, using their hearts as well as their heads, understanding when they need to compromise, and knowing when they must not. "
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Forest of Enchantments
103 " The choice they made in the moment of my need changed something in our relationship. I no longer depended on them so completely in the future. And when I took care to guard myself from hurt, it was as much from them as from our enemies. "
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Palace of Illusions
104 " How innocent we’d been, thinking that if only we willed something hard enough, it would come true. "
105 " Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you. No matter how famous or powerful they became, my husbands would always long to be cherished. They would always yearn to feel worthy. If a person could make them feel that way, they’d bind themselves to him—or her—forever. "
106 " I couldn’t control what was done to me. But my response to it was in my control. "
107 " Try to remember that you are the instrument and I the doer. If you can hold on to this, no sin can touch you. Instrument, "
108 " It didn’t drain me as I thought it might. Instead, it invigorated me. Such was love’s magic—the giver gained more than the receiver. "
109 " You will be remembered for causing the greatest war of your time. "
110 " I listened mesmerized, visualizing the goddess with her divine mate, wondering if it was possible for humans to replicate this perfect relationship. Would I be blessed with such a love in my life? "
111 " In your yearning you have made me into that which I am not. "
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Mistress of Spices
112 " Who held his cries in until red swam behind his eyelids like bleeding stars. "
113 " O exhilaration, I thought. To be lifted up through the eye of chaos, to balance breath-stopped on the edge of nothing. And the plunge that would follow, the shattering of my matchstick body to smithereens, the bones flying free as foam, the heart finally released. "
114 " But where love and sorrow bind people together, goodbyes are not so easily said. We were about to discover that. "
115 " Perhaps that was why I had to endure pain—because true transformation can only happen in the crucible of suffering "
116 " But when I see Sudha, her face bright with a simple, generous joy, the walls I'd set up so carefully collapse around me like a house of cards. Inside my heart it feels like a wet, new rain. In spite of all my insecurities, in spite of the oceans that'll be between us soon and the men that are between us already, I can never stop loving Sudha. It's my habit, and it's my fate. "
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , Sister of My Heart (Anju and Sudha #1)
117 " The pleasures that arise from sense-objects are bound to end, and thus they are only sources of pain. Don’t get attached to them. And: When a man reaches a state where honor and dishonor are alike to him, then he is considered supreme. Strive to gain such a state. "
118 " why man found himself driven to wrongdoing in spite of good intentions, Krishna replied, Because of anger and desire, our two direst enemies. "
119 " Good daughters are fortunate lamps, brightening the family's name. Wicked daughters are firebrands, blackening the family's fame. "
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , Before We Visit the Goddess
120 " When you begin to weave your own desires into your vision, the true seeing is taken from you. "