Sister of My Heart Quotes

“That'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 Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“Everytime i have turned the page he re-enters my life as awkward as postscript”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“Or 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 Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“I guess there's a lot we hope for that never happens.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“Tomorrow is another day. I've got plenty of things to worry about right now.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“I have to believe in possibility. How else can we bear the enormous weight of life?”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“the darkness is a cresting wave. It sweeps me up out of my body until I float among the stars, those tine bright pores on the sky's skin. If only I could pass through them, I would end up on the other side, the right side, shadowless, perfectly illuminated, beyond the worries of this mundane world”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“...each person is distinct, separate. That ultimately we are each alone”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“...the bird began to carry them to a new life in a new land. We'll be happy ever after, the queen wanted to whisper to her daughter as they flew, but she knew that was not true. Life never is that way. And so instead she held her daughter in silence, heart to heart, and as they traveled each heart drew on the other's strength, so that when they reached their destination they would be ready.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“Every person has a heart, but we're not always lucky enough to get a glimpse of it. And every heart, even the hardest, has a fragile spot. If you hit it there, it shatters.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“Loving someone so deeply was dangerous. It made you too vulnerable.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister Of My Heart

“But when I see Sudha, her face bright with a simple, generous joy, the walls I'd set up so carefully collapse around me like a house of cards. Inside my heart it feels like a wet, new rain. In spite of all my insecurities, in spite of the oceans that'll be between us soon and the men that are between us already, I can never stop loving Sudha. It's my habit, and it's my fate.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“No, Ashok. Love is not a tap. It flows and flows like blood from a wound, and you can die of it.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“If storytelling is how we keep alive those who are gone, then I enthusiastically condemn my father and uncle to oblivion.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister Of My Heart

“Who am I to say that small joys are less valuable than a passion which shatters your life?”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“Ah, how helpless we children are, how dependent on the whims of adults.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“I want to weep too, not for me but for us all--for rich or poor, educated or illiterate, here we are finally reduced to a sameness in this sisterhood of deprivation.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“And suddenly the fact that we are leaving each other cuts into me like a whiplash, the way truths do, sooner or later, when you have kept your gaze turned deliberately away from them.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister Of My Heart

“Because she believes in magic, demons and gods and falling stars to wish on, the way I never could.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“only towards one man can I feel that wrenching whirlwind emotion, soaring to heaven, flung down to hell, both at once.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“For seven lifetimes will I follow you to the ends of the earth.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“My heart is yours, as yours is mine.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“And that is how, poised in the sky between our new life and our old one, the life we cannot yet imagine and the one we’ve already begun to forget, I tell her a tale to make her heart strong, to graft her life onto. For of all things in this world it seems to me that that is what women most need.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“If there is one thing his story has taught me, it is that when all the dross is melted away from the human heart, only gold remains.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“I have been overwhelmed by gifts and good wishes all week. So many from people who I thought did not care, so many from people whose love I had done little to deserve. But then, love is never about deserving, is it? Nor is hate.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“What I am leaving behind—I cannot articulate what it is, but I know I will not find it, ever, in America.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“But sometimes the only way to healing is through the corridor of pain.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“We kiss with a strange urgency, as though we do not have a lifetime of kissing ahead. Is it because, being older, we know how grudgingly the world hands out its gifts, how eager it is to snatch them back?”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“Bless me that I might be like the Rani of Jhansi, the Queen of Swords,” I say. “Bless me that I have the courage to go into battle when necessary, no matter how bleak the situation. Bless me that I may be able to fight for myself and my child, no matter where I am.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“Because that’s the thing about us human beings when we really love someone, we can be happy even while our heart is breaking.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart