Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

Did you ever think how monotonous your life would be if you could see all that was coming to you?

Doesn’t the imagination always exaggerate—or diminish—truth?

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...

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

Haven’t you seen how many of them come to the palace each week, just to see us wave to them from the public balcony?

He told me that visions of all he needed to write came to him at the oddest moments, forcing him to abandon other activities and write them down.

He who binds to himself a Joy Doth the wingèd life destroy; But he who kisses the Joy as it flies Lives in Eternity’s sunrise.

I forgave you a long time ago,’ I say to Ram. ‘Though I didn’t know it until now. Because this is the most important aspect of love, whose other face is compassion: It isn’t doled out, drop by drop. I...

I have to believe in possibility. How else can we bear the enormous weight of life?

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 intelligentl...

I want to weep too, not for me but for us all--for rich or poor, educated or illiterate, here we are finally reduced to a sameness in this sisterhood of deprivation.

I was forced to face the truth. Ram no longer cared for me. Or if he did, it was pushed deep down inside him, suffocated by kingship. And since the children came from my body and were subject to the s...

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.

Just as you've deceived me, so will your mind deceive you. When you need the Brahmastra the most, you'll forget the mantra needed to call it up.

Love was full of contradictions. Sometimes the person you loved weakened you and sometimes he or she made you a stronger person.

Loving someone so deeply was dangerous. It made you too vulnerable.

Never choose something because it's easier.

O exhilaration, I thought. To be lifted up through the eye of chaos, to balance breath-stopped on the edge of nothing. And the plunge that would follow, the shattering of my matchstick body to smither...

Or perhaps it is just that desire lies at the heart of human existence. When we turn away from one desire, we must find another to cleave to with all our strength --or else we die.

Ram and Lakshman had joined their father, who had been housed in a separate palace, at the edge of the royal grounds because it was considered inauspicious for brides and grooms to meet in the days th...