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 DivakaruniThat'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 DivakaruniHow can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?
Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniTomorrow is another day. I've got plenty of things to worry about right now.
Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniGirls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women.
Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniOnce 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.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni