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 DivakaruniOr perhaps it is just that desire lies at the heart of human existence. When we turn away from one desire, we must find another to cleave to with all our strength --or else we die.
Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniI walk out of the room, lurching under the weight of the lesson I've learned less than one hour into wifehood: How quickly the sweetest love turns rancid when it isn't returned. When the one you love loves someone else.
Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniIn life, it's best not to take anything for free - unless it's from someone who wishes you well.
Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniGirls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni