Basanthi Pasupuleti

“Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path—all they do is trip you up.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

“Doesn’t the imagination always exaggerate—or diminish—truth?”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

“time is the great eraser, both of sorrow and of joy.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

“...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, The Palace of Illusions