Divakaruni Quotes

#1. With the strong women I write about, I want to create a sense of strong possibilities. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#2. Don't create snakes out of ropes. You have enough to worry about. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#3. And if I wasn't able to bar anger, or her insidious cousin, irritation, From my heart, at least some of the time I bit back the sharp comments that I had prided myself on dispensing so freely all these years. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#4. After 9/11, there was so much distress in America that it led to an inter-cultural breakdown. Some of our communities were targeted. Many of our adults shut themselves off from other cultures. I tried to bring children of Indian and other cultures together in my literature. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#5. This is what Kaikeyi failed to see: 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 that drive them. We must want what they want, not what we want for them. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#6. The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#7. For men, the softer emotions are always intertwined with power and pride. That was why Karna waited for me to plead with him though he could have stopped my suffering with a single world. That was why he turned on me when I refused to ask for his pity. That was why he incited Dussasan to an action that was against the code of honor by which he lived his life. He knew he would regret it - in his fierce smile there had already been a glint of pain.

But was a woman's heart any purer, in the end?

That was the final truth I learned. All this time I'd thought myself better than my father, better than all those men who inflicted harm on a thousand innocents in order to punish the one man who had wronged them. I'd thought myself above the cravings that drove him. But I, too, was tainted with them, vengeance encoded into my blood. When the moment came I couldn't resist it, no more than a dog can resist chewing a bone that, splintering, makes his mouth bleed.

Already I was storing these lessons inside me. I would use them over the long years of exile to gain what I wanted, no matter what its price.

But Krishna, the slippery one, the one who had offered me a different solace, Krishna with his disappointed eyes - what was the lesson he'd tried to teach? #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#8. Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when their dream coincides with ours, the way two cutout designs laid one on top of the other might match. But dream worlds are not static like cutouts; sooner or later they change shape, leading to misunderstanding, loneliness and loss of love. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#9. Hi mam I am Divya studying 2nd year English I am doing research about you so please tell me the relation of Anand in Conch series which compared to foreign culture #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#10. Pain makes us crazy. All we want is to throw the live coal of it as far from us as we can, not thinking what we might set afire. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#11. The fates are cruel," Bheeshma whispered, "and they've been crueler than usual to you. But the sins you committed in ignorance are not your fault."

"I'll still have to pay for them," Karna said. "Isn't that how karma works? Look at what happened to Pandu, who killed a sage by accident, thinking him to be a wild deer. He had to bear the consequences of it for the rest of his life. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#12. Made to the other women when I joined them at night. The pleasures that arise from sense-objects are bound to end, and thus they are only sources of pain. Don't get attached to them. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#13. Doesn't the imagination always exaggerate - or diminish - truth? #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#14. To some extent, I draw on what I see around me; in other places, I imagine what I write. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#15. Never choose something because it's easier. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#16. How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble? #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#17. I'm too careful with money - comes out of being poor for several years while growing up. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#18. Immigration was a huge force in changing my outlook. I moved to America 30 years ago. I had to reassess my beliefs, especially about women's roles. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#19. Every person has a heart, but we're not always lucky enough to get a glimpse of it. And every heart, even the hardest, has a fragile spot. If you hit it there, it shatters. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#20. I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware of the importance of the culture and literature to my life. Sometimes when you're immersed in something, you just don't notice it very much. Moving away makes you appreciate your culture. Living here, I've thought more and more about India, and what being Indian-American means to me. And it's made me incorporate things from Indian literature into my own writing. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#21. It's different for different people, and for a woman it's important to look as good she wants to look. But you don't need to do it for someone else or to impress some male out there. You do it for your own sake. You wear what makes you feel good, you put make-up and jewellery - whatever gives you self-confidence. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#22. As I remember my grandfather and those Christmas mornings he gave for a little girl's pleasure, I know that often a big life starts with doing small things. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#23. I have to believe in possibility. How else can we bear the enormous weight of life? #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#24. The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#25. 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. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#26. To make money for college, I worked in our college dining room. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#27. I am a Hindu, brought up mostly in India. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#28. 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. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#29. Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people ... Fennel ... smelling of changes to come. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#30. Aren't we all pawns in the hands of time, the greatest player of them all? #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#31. In many immigrant families, the parents are just talking and talking about the home country until the children are like, 'Oh, don't tell us any more.' #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#32. Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#33. I had friends who died in the 9/11 tragedy; some of my friends lost family members in the aftermath of Godhra. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#34. 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. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#35. India has been a very accepting culture. We pride ourselves on that. That is a global truth. In fact, it forms a major theme in my books. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#36. Everyone has a story. I don't believer anyone can go through life without encountering at least one amazing thing. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#37. Ah, now I have learned how deep in the human heart vanity lies, vanity which is the other face of the fear of being unloved. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#38. She who sows vengeance must reap its bloody fruit. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#39. Love. There's no argument, no matter how strong, that can overcome that word. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#40. I have been watching how Indian women are forced to do certain things, as the stories of sacrifice and devotion in mythology demand from them. And then there are inspiring stories about women like the Rani of Jhansi that offer women refreshing role models. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#41. Push away the past, that vessel in which all emotions curdle to regret. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#42. Tomorrow is another day. I've got plenty of things to worry about right now. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#43. The mark of a wise man is that he changes his mind when he sees mistake. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#44. No, Ashok. Love is not a tap. It flows and flows like blood from a wound, and you can die of it. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#45. I took a little break after 'The Palace of Illusions' to clear my head. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#46. America is a country formed by diverse communities from different countries. Overall, the country is very hospitable and gives opportunities to grow. Saying that, I'd also say I'm not a 'white' immigrant; a South Asian's experience is different than, say, a European immigrant's. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#47. 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 smithereens, the bones flying free as foam, the heart finally released. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#48. All of us groping in caverns, our fingertips raw against stone, searching for that slight crack, the edge of a door opening into love. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#49. 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. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#50. I started putting down my thoughts on paper out of loneliness while I was studying in America. I was very close to my grandfather, and when he died, I couldn't visit home. I started scribbling those thoughts. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#51. I tried to hold on to this compassion, sensing its preciousness, but even as I reached to grasp it, it dissipated into wisps. No revelation can endure unless it is bolstered by a calm pure mind- and I'm afraid I didn't possess that. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#52. Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path , All they do is trip you up #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#53. I'm a very senses-oriented person, and I want to bring readers in on the level of the senses, so they can experience another culture and another place. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#54. Looking down from the heights of Maslow's pyramid, it seems inconceivable to us that someone could actually prefer bread to freedom. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#55. Can our actions change our destiny? Or are they like sand piled against the breakage in a dam, merely delaying the inevitable? #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#56. Pain, which is ultimately only like itself. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#57. Above us our palace waits, the only one I've ever needed. Its walls are space, its floor is sky, its center everywhere. We rise; the shapes cluster around us in welcome, dissolving and forming again like fireflies in a summer evening. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#58. Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#59. In the white marble hall of the hotel, I'm waltzing with Rajat. The music is a river and we're dancing in it. It winds against our bodies, muscular as a serpent. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#60. I came into Chicago in winter - I'd never been so cold in my life! I was very homesick, and a poor student at that time. America seemed so different and so filled with amazing things - and almost all of them were out of my reach. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#61. There was an unexpected freedom in
finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed! #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#62. I've long been interested in the tale-within-a-tale phenomenon. I'm familiar with many tales which use this framework or the device of many people in one place, telling their stories, or multiple storytellers commenting on each others' stories with their own. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#63. Isn't that what truth is? The force of a person's believing seeps into those around him - into the very earth and air and water - until there's nothing else. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#64. Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified.
'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#65. I write in my study, where I also have my prayer altar. I believe that keeps me focused and gives me positive energy and reminds me that I'm merely the instrument of greater creative forces. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#66. I type everything on my computer. I carry a writer's notebook everywhere, in case I am struck by an idea. I forget things unless I write them down. I'm planning to learn how to dictate into my cellphone; I think that will be very helpful, too. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#67. After the fire, when I'd tried to express my gratitude for their kindness to our customers, they'd been awkward, uncomfortable. My father had had to explain to me that giving thanks is not a common practice in India.
'Then how do you know if people appreciated what you did?' I'd asked.
'Do you really need to know?' my father had asked back. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#68. To achieve important things, we have to sacrifice what's important to us. That's an idea that's very central to Indian thinking. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#69. I came from a traditional family, and it was an exciting but challenging transition to move to America and live on my own. The world around me was suddenly so different. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#70. I feel I can express the nuances of the Bengali lifestyle and ways of thinking better than other cultures. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#71. I hate it when people throw away food - I've seen too many hungry people. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#72. Because ultimately only the witness
and not the actors
knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi) #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#73. In Western dream interpretation, it's often connected to psychotherapy and looking at the personality and what's going on in your life. In Eastern dream telling, many times there's this idea of a special gift. And without this gift, you could study and study, but you'd never really become an effective dream teller. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#74. In community work, you reach some people, but in writing, I can reach many more people, not only in exploring issues of domestic violence, but also by showing the importance of strong women in communities. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#75. I thought that if lokas existed at all, good women would surely go to one where men were not allowed so that they could be finally free of male demands. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#76. Some things can't be spoken. The body alone knows them. It holds them patiently, in its silent, intelligent cells, until you are ready to see. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#77. She had always been this way: interested-quite unnecessarily, some would say-in the secrets of strangers. When flying, she always chose a window seat so that when the plane took off or landed, she could look down on the tiny houses and imagine the lives of the people who inhabited them. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#78. Who is truly wealthy?
That man to whom the agreeable and disagreeable, wealth and woe,
past and future, are the same.
What is the most wondrous thing on earth?
Each day countless humans enter the Temple of Death, yet the ones
left behind continue to live as though they were immortal. #Quote by Chitra Lekha Banerjee Divakaruni

#79. And have you come to set me free finally, Govinda?" he asked. "Have I paid sufficiently for my theft? #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#80. In your yearning you have made me into that which I am not. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#81. The choice they made in the moment of my need changed something in our relationship. I no longer depended on them so completely in the future. And when I took care to guard myself from hurt, it was as much from them as from our enemies. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#82. You could also call it waking,' Krishna continues. 'Or intermission, as one scene in a play ends and the next hasn't yet begun. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#83. I want my books to force readers to recognise the fact that a woman is a human being just like them. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#84. I guess there's a lot we hope for that never happens. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#85. In the things we love lie clues to who we are. What we want for those we love. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#86. She lifts a bowl of kheer and her thoughts, flittering like dusty sparrows in a brown back alley, turn a sudden kingfisher blue. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#87. In the temple, I sit on the cool floor next to Grandfather, beneath the stern benevolence of the goddess's glance. Grandfather is clad in only a traditional silk dhoti
no fancy modern clothes for him. That's one of the things I admire about him, how he is always unapologetically, uncompromisingly himself. His spine is erect and impatient; white hairs blaze across his chest. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#88. Why are you attracted to self-sabotage? I #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#89. Perhaps what distinguishes my characters is their courage and spirit and a certain stubbornness which enables them to keep going even when facing a setback. I think this developed organically as I wrote, but also it came out of a desire to portray women as powerful and intelligent forces in the world. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#90. And the mother, who through all the years of her hardship had never shed a tear, wept at his trust and her deception. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#91. What is the most wondrous thing on earth? Each day countless humans enter the Temple of Death, yet the ones left behind continue to live as though they were immortal ... In #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#92. Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#93. Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#94. I love visual art. I painted for many years when I was younger. I have studied modern/contemporary Indian art a bit and am very impressed with the talent in India. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#95. As I've written more, and as other Indian American voices have grown around me, I strive harder to find experiences that are unique yet a meaningful and resonant part of the American story. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#96. To upset the delicate axis of giving and receiving on which our lives are held precarious. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#97. My grandfather was a very strong personality. He certainly ruled his household with an iron fist, even though it was often gloved in velvet! #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#98. I find that it's really important for me to imagine characters and situations. That allows me a lot of freedom. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#99. She did understand about sacrificing values for the sake of love. It was a lesson all mothers had to memorize. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#100. 'The Moonstone' was all I could have hoped for. A mysterious, cursed jewel, wrested from India, only to be stolen later from a great British mansion. Enigmatic, dangerous priests who follow it across the ocean in hopes of wresting it back. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#101. By the time we're adults, our ideas have solidified. So I wanted to write for a younger audience, who would perhaps love heroes from other cultures. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#102. The story hangs in the night air between them. It is very latem, and if father or daugther stepped to the window, tehyw ould see the Suktara, star of the impending dawn, hanging low in the sky. But they keep sitting at the table, each thinking of the story differently, as teller and listener always must. In the mind of each, different images swirl up and fall away, and each holds on to a different part of the story, thinking it the most important. And if each were to speak what it meant, they would say things so different you would not know it wa sthe same story they were speaking of. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#103. I think, we all learned that when we are afraid it's easy to want to blame, and the people we want to blame are the people who don't look like us. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#104. Because it is the lot of mothers to remember what no one else cares to, Mrs. Dutta thinks. To tell them over and over until they are lodged, perforce, in family lore. We are the keepers of the heart's dusty corners. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#105. I work very hard at creating complex characters, a mix of positives and negatives. They are all flawed. I believe flaws are almost universal, and they help us understand, sympathise and, paradoxically, feel closer to such characters. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#106. Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point in looking ahead to that danger and suffering its effects even before it comes to us. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#107. But when I see Sudha, her face bright with a simple, generous joy, the walls I'd set up so carefully collapse around me like a house of cards. Inside my heart it feels like a wet, new rain. In spite of all my insecurities, in spite of the oceans that'll be between us soon and the men that are between us already, I can never stop loving Sudha. It's my habit, and it's my fate. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#108. Truth, like diamond, has many facets. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#109. 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. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#110. What is the nature of life?
Life is lines of dominoes falling.
One thing leads to another, and then another, just like you'd planned. But suddenly a Domino gets skewed, events change direction, people dig in their heels, and you're faced with a situation that you didn't see coming, you who thought you were so clever. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#111. I was caught on the freeway for hours when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The entire city had to be evacuated. I observed lives threatened by catastrophes and a whole range of behaviour. What could people do during a crisis? #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#112. I was very fortunate that all my holidays I'd spend with my grandfather, experiencing a much more traditional way of life and listening to these wonderful stories, which I now feel are such an important part of Indian thinking. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#113. I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There's something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#114. The wind blows through him, cleansing. Salt and distance, smell of the deep. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#115. I've been interested in dreams myself for a long time, and it's a big part of the Indian tradition, especially where I was brought up in Calcutta in my family, which is quite traditional. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#116. The bird began to carry them to a new life in a new land. We'll be happy ever after, the queen wanted to whisper to her daughter as they flew, but she knew that was not true. Life never is that way. And so instead she held her daughter in silence, heart to heart, and as they traveled each heart drew on the other's strength, so that when they reached their destination they would be ready. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#117. The dream is not a drug but a way. Listen to where it can take you. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#118. Each desire in the world is different, as is each love. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#119. Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment? #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#120. When your heart is crusted over with your own pain, it is easy to feel little for others. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#121. In life, it's best not to take anything for free - unless it's from someone who wishes you well. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#122. I came to the plain fields of Ohio with pictures painted by Hollywood movies and the works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. None of them had much to say, if at all, about Dayton, Ohio. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#123. Sometimes
she knows this from her own life
to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#124. Would you like to come in?" I said. My hands were sweaty. Inside my chest an ocean heaved and crashed and heaved again.
"I would," he said. I saw his Adam's apple jerk as he swallowed. "Thank you."
I was distracted by that thank you. We had moved past the language of formality long ago. It was strange to relearn it with each other. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#125. I have a variety of readers from across the diasporic community, not just from South Asia. I like to write large stories that include all of us - about common and cohesive experiences which bring together many immigrants, their culture shocks, transformations, concepts of home and self in a new land. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#126. For isn't that what our homes are ultimately, our fantasies made corporeal, our secret selves exposed? The converse is also true: we grow to become that which we live within. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#127. Each day has a color, a smell. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#128. If it is good literature, the reader and the writer will connect. It's inevitable. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#129. My mother clutches at the collar of my shirt. I rub her back and feel her tears on my neck. It's been decades since our bodies have been this close. It's an odd sensation, like a torn ligament knitting itself back, lumpy and imperfect, usable as long as we know not to push it too hard. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#130. I closed my eyes and willed my breath to slow, my conscious mind to fold itself inward. I could feel heat pulsing from my daughter's head, her frantic thoughts whirling like broken glass. I loosened my hold on my body and dropped into that whirlpool. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#131. Unlike novels with a hero or two heroines, in 'One Amazing Thing,' all the characters tell stories they've never told anyone before, so all the voices become equally important. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#132. Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#133. Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#134. I listened mesmerized, visualizing the goddess with her divine mate, wondering if it was possible for humans to replicate this perfect relationship. Would I be blessed with such a love in my life? #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#135. To me, characters are at the heart of great literature. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#136. Open yourself to the sight, and it will show you what you need to know. But never attempt to bend it to your will. Never pry into a particular life that has been brought to your care. That is to break trust. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#137. I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#138. I want people to be sensitive about how women feel and think. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#139. I realise that a novel and a film are different mediums. As artistes, we need to respect other artistes. It also needs a lot of courage to take risks to experiment and interpret known literary works. #Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni