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.
Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniI am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!
Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniThere was an unexpected freedom in ๏ฌnding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!
Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniA dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.
Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniLooking 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 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