“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

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novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist 1956

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