272 Quotes by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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.

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.

He never wasted time, Ram, especially on things he believed he couldn’t change.

Often, others see you, as you see yourself.

All the way back, 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 intelligently as we knew until we grew stronger than them.

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.

The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

In your yearning you have made me into that which I am not.

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.