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141 " Let the past go. Be at ease. Allow the future to arrive at its own pace, unfurling its secrets when it will. "
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Palace of Illusions
142 " Seorang pahlawan tetap pahlawan, tidak peduli apa kastanya. Kemampuan lebih penting daripada kelahiran yang kebetulan. -Duryodana "
143 " wait for a man to avenge your honor, and you'll wait forever. "
144 " He believes it to be so. 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. "
145 " I wanted to warn my husbands that one couldn't depend on a man who plucked frailty and desire so easily out of his heart. How could he have compassion for the faults of others, or understand their need? "
146 " Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you're lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have. I advise you to forget about love, princess. Pleasure is simpler, and duty more important. Learnt to be satisfied with them. "
147 " 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. "
148 " Trying to show you something. The stick—it scared you, right? It may even have hurt you, if you hadn’t been so quick. But look—in trying to burn you, it’s consuming itself. That’s what happens to a heart— "
149 " But in some way, they remained shadowy figures, their thoughts and motives mysterious, their emotions portrayed only when they affected the lives of the male heroes, their roles ultimately subservient to those of their fathers or husbands, brothers or sons. "
150 " Much has been written about Arjun's grief at this eleventh hour and what Krishna said in response to shake him out of immobility. "
151 " Krishna hinted that such a treasure was inside me—Weapons cannot harm it; fire cannot burn it; it is eternal, still and blissful—but the words, slippery as stones that have been left underwater a long time, slid from my fingers even as I tried to examine them. Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help us. "
152 " But one thing Krishna said struck me directly. When Arjun asked why man found himself driven to wrongdoing in spite of good intentions, Krishna replied, Because of anger and desire, our two direst enemies. "
153 " One part of Krishna's conversation with Arjun I was unable to report. Arjun spoke of it later, though his disjointed words didn't make much sense. He said Krishna had appeared to him in the form of God. "
154 " I couldn't stop myself from wondering, over and over, why he considered Arjun more fitting to receive this vision. What crucial ingredient did I lack that the mystery of the universe "
155 " I couldn't stop myself from wondering, over and over, why he considered Arjun more fitting to receive this vision. What crucial ingredient did I lack that the mystery of the universe should forever elude me? "
156 " In only a few hours, the ground turned red as though the skies had rained blood. What would happen by the end of the eighteen days? "