The Storyteller's Secret Quotes

“But it is not always the sun that must shine to have light. In darkness, we must seek out the stars. Their brightness has its own power.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“I can’t help but think when we have nothing else, when there are no answers, faith is our greatest ally.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“You should be with someone who can make you happy.” My heart breaks as I set him free. With all the love I have ever felt for him, I whisper, “You deserve that.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“those who leave have a reason that is more powerful than the one to stay.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“same blood runs in every human on the earth. You just have to see past the variations in skin and culture.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“The third eye focuses on God, and the bindi signifies piety, reminding you to keep God at the center of your thoughts.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“A dream may be the only window to the unknown.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“True kindness in people is a rarity, and when discovered, I believe it should be treasured.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“am talking about her heart,” he corrects. “As a human, she was imperfect, as all humans are. But her heart always fought to do right by others, even when she was not doing right by herself. Therein lies her perfection”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“What if tradition is just an excuse to keep things as they always have been?”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“With humility may I reap my own power, and at the end of the journey, I hope I learn when to stand small so others can feel tall.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“But laws are slow to change what is in people’s hearts.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“Your grandmother, Amisha, always said to me, ‘Ravi, when you are next to the earth, you can hear her secrets.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“He told me once that people will forget many things, but they will never forget a person who shows them kindness.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“Her stories were her only passport to places she had never been. Without them, she would be forever trapped in this village.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“For hundreds of years, people have categorized others as less so they could feel like more. Color, gender, class, religion, physical handicaps, sexual orientation, and pedigree are just a few ways in which one group is divided from another. For every person who stands superior, another must be inferior. But what does it say of us as a human race when we push others down for our own needs?”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“the only thing we take from life to death being the people whose lives we have touched. Everything else is a façade”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“Your story showed me that life isn’t always about what I want to be but instead what I can be.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“Whatever separates us in life has no relevance in death.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“I watch all of it, amazed at the human mind and ability to make a home no matter the circumstances. These children, surviving with so little, are more resilient than I can ever hope to be.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“He gave me the only answer he could—that history proved time and again it was difficult to change what people believed as truth.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“Blood does not define family. Love does.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“floccinaucinihilipilification, one of the most complicated. Hope—for such a simple word its meaning is profound”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“I once interviewed a New Age guru who spoke about how unfinished business from ancestors can trickle down to generations twice, even three times, removed. Actions in the present can help to correct the mistakes made in the past. And even if there is no absolution to be had, an understanding may help keep the same mistake from being repeated.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“In Indian mythology, when the moon covers the sun, darkness has the power to cover your life.” Slowly, he makes his way out of the room and toward the exit. “But it is not always the sun that must shine to have light. In darkness, we must seek out the stars. Their brightness has its own power.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“Fate passed its judgment and sentenced my mother at birth. She was destined to live a life without the presence or guidance of a mother. Though sadness always accompanied her, she carried the weight of her hurt silently. She believed herself a curse and kept her distance. She loved me the only way she knew how while living her own life in shame.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“But, for whom that darkness of the soul is chased by light, splendid and clear shines manifest the truth. As if a sun of wisdom sprang to shed its beams of dawn.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“And to never forget that when you offer a hand of respect, you will in turn be welcomed.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“What is the chance our marriage can survive the tumultuous ups and downs of hope followed by disappointment and finally resignation? When it is too hard to stand, how do you help another?”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“That’s what relationships are about, right? Seeing the good first and then slowly piecing in the bad until the full picture reveals itself.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret