One Amazing Thing Quotes

“She had always been this way: interested-quite unnecessarily, some would say-in the secrets of strangers. When flying, she always chose a window seat so that when the plane took off or landed, she could look down on the tiny houses and imagine the lives of the people who inhabited them.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, One Amazing Thing

“Something had happened as I lay in the field, watching the sky, an understanding that I couldn’t control the lives of others—but neither could they control mine.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, One Amazing Thing

“I didn’t realize—until this earthquake, until today—that my withholding was a worse kind of betrayal, a betrayal of the self. It was time for me to change.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, One Amazing Thing