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The Forest of Enchantments QUOTES

The Forest of Enchantments QUOTES

1 " 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

2 " 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. "

― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Forest of Enchantments

3 " 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. "

― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Forest of Enchantments

4 " 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

5 " How innocent we’d been, thinking that if only we willed something hard enough, it would come true. "

― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Forest of Enchantments

6 " I couldn’t control what was done to me. But my response to it was in my control. "

― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Forest of Enchantments

7 " 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. "

― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Forest of Enchantments

8 " 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? "

― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Forest of Enchantments

9 " But where love and sorrow bind people together, goodbyes are not so easily said. We were about to discover that. "

― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Forest of Enchantments

10 " Perhaps that was why I had to endure pain—because true transformation can only happen in the crucible of suffering "

― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Forest of Enchantments

11 " The herbs and chants weren’t working because of my anger towards Ram. In some dark part of my soul, I wanted him to suffer. "

― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Forest of Enchantments

12 " I don’t agree with you that the private life must be sacrificed for the public one. And that is the final advice that I leave for my children: my dearest boys, balance duty with love. Trust me, it can be done. "

― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Forest of Enchantments

13 " Most of all, I understood that things happen to us for many complicated reasons, arising from both the past and the future. "

― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Forest of Enchantments

14 " If you want to stand up against wrongdoing, if you want to bring about change, do it in a way that doesn’t bruise a man’s pride. You’ll have a better chance of success. "

― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Forest of Enchantments

15 " He never wasted time, Ram, especially on things he believed he couldn’t change. "

― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Forest of Enchantments

16 " And this is one of the final things I learn about love: it’s found in its purest form, on this imperfect earth, between mothers and young children, because there’s nothing they want except to make each other happy. "

― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Forest of Enchantments

17 " That’s how love stops us when it might be healthier to speak out, to not let frustration and rage build up until it explodes. "

― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Forest of Enchantments

18 " Motherhood taught me something new about love. It was the one relationship where you gave everything you had and then wished you had more to give. "

― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Forest of Enchantments

19 " Forgive me, Sister, I said silently, you who are the unsung heroine of this tale, the one who has the tougher role: to wait and to worry. "

― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Forest of Enchantments

20 " I learned a new fact about love that day: it could kill. Sometimes it could kill instantaneously. "

― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , The Forest of Enchantments