The Palace of Illusions
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.”
“I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!”
“Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.”
“Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.”
“There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!”
“Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path—all they do is trip you up.”
“The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.”
“Aren't we all pawns in the hands of time, the greatest player of them all?”
“Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)”
“She who sows vengeance must reap its bloody fruit.”
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