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“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.” (The Mistress of Spices Quotes)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Mistress of Spices
“And under it all, earth waited with her lead-filled veins, impatient to shrug herself clean.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Mistress of Spices
“Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack of our existence and shake it inside out. Day of suicide, day of murder.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Mistress of Spices
“Each day has a color, a smell.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Mistress of Spices
“Each desire in the world is different, as is each love.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Mistress of Spices
“Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Mistress of Spices
“Hope not built on reason brings disappointment only.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Mistress of Spices
“How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Mistress of Spices
“I am turmeric who rose out of the ocean of milk when the devas and asuras churned for the treasures of the universe. I am turmeric who came after the nectar and before the poison and thus lie in between.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Mistress of Spices
“In your yearning you have made me into that which I am not.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Mistress of Spices
“Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mug bean, which is sacred to the moon.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Mistress of Spices
“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.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Mistress of Spices
“She lifts a bowl of kheer and her thoughts, flittering like dusty sparrows in a brown back alley, turn a sudden kingfisher blue.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Mistress of Spices
“Sometimes I wonder if there is such a thing as reality, an objective and untouched nature of being. Or if all that we encounter has already been changed by what we had imagined it to be. If we have dreamed it into being.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Mistress of Spices
“The mark of a wise man is that he changes his mind when he sees mistake.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Mistress of Spices
“When you begin to weave your own desires into your vision, the true seeing is taken from you.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Mistress of Spices
“When your heart is crusted over with your own pain, it is easy to feel little for others.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Mistress of Spices
“Who held his cries in until red swam behind his eyelids like bleeding stars.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Mistress of Spices
