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21 " You could also call it waking,' Krishna continues. 'Or intermission, as one scene in a play ends and the next hasn't yet begun. "
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Palace of Illusions
22 " wait for a man to avenge your honor, and you’ll wait forever. "
23 " Doesn’t the imagination always exaggerate—or diminish—truth? "
24 " we cannot force ourselves to love—or to withhold it. At best, we can curb our actions. The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness. "
25 " But truth, when it’s being lived, is less glamorous than our imaginings. "
26 " Isn’t that what truth is? The force of a person’s believing seeps into those around him—into the very earth and air and water—until there’s nothing else. "
27 " I thought that if lokas existed at all, good women would surely go to one where men were not allowed so that they could be finally free of male demands. "
28 " Ii would no longer waste time on regret. I would turn my face to the future and carve it into the shape I wanted. - Panchali "
29 " 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. "
30 " Distance is a great promoter of harmony: "
31 " Even the wisest don't know what's hidden in the depths of their being "
32 " Love. There’s no argument, no matter how strong, that can overcome that word. "
33 " 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! "
34 " 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. "
35 " Can our actions change our destiny? Or are they like sand piled against the breakage in a dam, merely delaying the inevitable? "
36 " How pride had kept them from admitting their mistakes—and "
37 " 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. "
38 " 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. "
39 " 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, "
40 " You will be remembered for causing the greatest war of your time. "