Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

All of us groping in caverns, our fingertips raw against stone, searching for that slight crack, the edge of a door opening into love.

American-Statesman

Maybe it was that sense that comes to us all at some point in the growing-up process, that we are separate from our parents and must suffer our own lives, with our own sorrows. Or maybe it was somethi...

So this, too, was true of love: it could make us forget our own needs. It could make us strong even when the world was collapsing around us.

And have you come to set me free finally, Govinda? he asked. Have I paid sufficiently for my theft?

Anger and self-pity are useless emotions, so I push them away and speak calmly, even though my heart is breaking all over again.

But truth, when it’s being lived, is less glamorous than our imaginings.

Dear Anju, for whom love means that we must want the same thing, always. That we must be the same. She has not yet learned that ultimately each person - even Anjali and Basudha - is distinct, separate...

Drupad was mystified. He'd had little to do with the Kaurava clan, whose kingdom lay to the northwest, in Hastinapur. From what he'd heard, their blind ruler, Dhritarashtra, was a quiet, careful man.

Early in my life, I learned to eavesdrop. I was driven to this ignoble practice because people seldom told me anything worth knowing.

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.

How, without detaching ourselves from the spell of the past, can we focus fully on the moment that faces us?

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

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...

Ram wasn’t shy about telling me what pleased him, and he asked me what I liked until I overcame my shyness and answered. Bedtime became at once exciting and joyful, a secret gift I looked forward to a...

So many photos, so carefully preserved. How absurdly central I'd been to my mother's life.

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...

Did you think of the impact your actions would have on the women of the city? That men would punish their wives harshly or even discard them for the smallest refractions, saying King Ram did so. Then...

It’s not enough to merely love someone. 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...

The confidence of the untested.