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#1

“I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

tags: inspirational

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#2

“Each day has a color, a smell.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices

tags: aroma, calendar, color, day, odor, smell

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#3

“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, Sister of My Heart

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#4

“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, The Palace of Illusions

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#5

“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, The Palace of Illusions

tags: divakaruni, krishna, life, palace-of-illusions, panchaali, seriousness

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#6

“Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

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#7

“Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

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#8

“There was an unexpected freedom in
ﬁnding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

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#9

“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, The Mistress of Spices

tags: love, luck, spice, sunday, turmeric

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#10

“Everytime i have turned the page he re-enters my life as awkward as postscript”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

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#11

“The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

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#12

“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, Queen of Dreams

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#13

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

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#14

“I guess there's a lot we hope for that never happens.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

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#15

“Looking back, I could not point to one special time and say, There! That's what is amazing. We can change completely and not recognize it. We think terrible events have made us into stone. But love slips in like a chisel - and suddenly it is an ax, breaking us into pieces from the inside.”
― Chitra Divakaruni

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#16

“How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices

tags: forgiveness, repentance

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#17

“Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices

tags: fenugreek, green, rain, spice, tuesday

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#18

“In life, it's best not to take anything for free - unless it's from someone who wishes you well.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Queen of Dreams

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#19

“Tomorrow is another day. I've got plenty of things to worry about right now.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

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#20

“Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Queen of Dreams

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#21

“She who sows vengeance must reap its bloody fruit.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

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#22

“Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices

tags: change, fennel, spice, transition, wednesday

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#23

“Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices

tags: monday, moon

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#24

“A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Queen of Dreams

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#25

“The dream is not a drug but a way. Listen to where it can take you.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Queen of Dreams

tags: dreams

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#26

“I liked his voice, rich and unself-conscious even when he forgot words and hummed to fill in the gap. What I didn't understand, I imagined, and thus it became a love song.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Queen of Dreams

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#27

“Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Oleander Girl

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#28

“Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help us.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

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#29

“Aren't we all pawns in the hands of time, the greatest player of them all?”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

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#30

“Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack of our existence and shake it inside out. Day of suicide, day of murder.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices

tags: chili, spice, thursday

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