Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes (19 quotes)

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The Mistress of Spices

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Sister of My Heart

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The Mistress of Spices

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Sister of My Heart

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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Famous Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

“Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path—all they do is trip you up.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Source: The Palace of Illusions

“Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni book The Mistress of Spices

Source: The Mistress of Spices

“Each day has a color, a smell.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni book The Mistress of Spices

Source: The Mistress of Spices

“Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Source: The Palace of Illusions

“But maybe as I get older, I begin to see beauty where I least expected it before.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don't, it turns gangrenous and kills you…. But sometimes words can break a feeling into pieces.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Source: Queen of Dreams

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

“I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Source: The Palace of Illusions

“Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified.
'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Source: The Palace of Illusions

“That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni book Sister of My Heart

Source: Sister of My Heart

“Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Source: The Palace of Illusions

“There was an unexpected freedom in
ﬁnding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Source: The Palace of Illusions

“Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Source: The Palace of Illusions

“The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Source: The Palace of Illusions

“How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni book The Mistress of Spices

Source: The Mistress of Spices

“She who sows vengeance must reap its bloody fruit.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Source: The Palace of Illusions

“Everytime i have turned the page he re-enters my life as awkward as postscript”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni book Sister of My Heart

Source: Sister of My Heart

“… this time I didn't launch into my usual tirade. Was it a memory of Krishna, the cool silence with which he countered disagreement, that stopped me? I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Source: The Palace of Illusions

“Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni book The Mistress of Spices

Source: The Mistress of Spices

“Above us our palace waits, the only one I've ever needed. Its walls are space, its floor is sky, its center everywhere. We rise; the shapes cluster around us in welcome, dissolving and forming again like fireflies in a summer evening.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Source: The Palace of Illusions

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