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  1. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ Before We Visit the Goddess

    Good daughters are fortunate lamps, brightening the family's name.
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  2. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ Before We Visit the Goddess

    Would you like to come in?" I said. My hands were sweaty. Inside my chest an ocean heaved and crashed and heaved again."I would," he said. I saw his Adam's apple jerk as he swallowed. "Thank you."I was distracted by that thank you. We had moved past the language of formality long ago. It was strange to relearn it with each other.
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  3. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ Before We Visit the Goddess

    Bela had thought she knew what love felt like, but when she saw Sanjay at the airport after six long months, her heart gave a great, hurtful lurch, as though it were trying to leap out of her body to meet him. This, she thought. This is it. But it was only part of the truth. She would learn over the next years that love can feel a lot of different ways, and sometimes it can hurt a lot more.
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  4. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ Before We Visit the Goddess

    Pain makes us crazy. All we want is to throw the live coal of it as far from us as we can, not thinking what we might set afire.
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  5. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ Before We Visit the Goddess

    I guess that's when people call their mothers - when their world is falling apart.
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  6. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ Before We Visit the Goddess

    After that, somehow, I began fixing things in my life. Dr Berger says being close to death will do that, but I'm not sure catalysts of change can be so easily identified.
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  7. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ Before We Visit the Goddess

    So many photos, so carefully preserved. How absurdly central I'd been to my mother's life.
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  8. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ Before We Visit the Goddess

    I long to stretch out on the sofa, wrapping myself in the red quilt that's lying there. Then, with a stab, I recognize the quilt. My father had brought it back from a business trip he took to New England long ago. Ironic, how objects remain in your life long after people have exited.
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  9. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ Before We Visit the Goddess

    ​It felt as though someone had reached into him and was wresting out his heart. In later life his sorrows would be deep-drawn and bone-aching sad, but never like this. Perhaps only the young can feel such exquisitely intense pain.
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  10. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ Before We Visit the Goddess

    She did understand about sacrificing values for the sake of love. It was a lesson all mothers had to memorize."
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  11. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ Before We Visit the Goddess

    She put on some music. Drum and flute, I think. She played it soft, because it was dreadfully late, a time when all good men and women, or at least the practical ones, had gone to bed. Then she danced for me.
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  12. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ Before We Visit the Goddess

    Why are you attracted to self-sabotage? I
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