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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Forest of Enchantments
This was my first lesson on the nature of love: that in a moment it could fulfil the cravings of a lifetime, like a light that someone might shine into a cavern that has been dark for a million years.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Forest of Enchantments
I pondered the word endure, what it meant. It didn't mean giving in. It didn't mean being weak or accepting injustice. It meant taking the challenges thrown at us and dealing with them as intelligently as we knew until we grew stronger than them. That was what I'd work on.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Forest of Enchantments
So this, too, was true of love: it could make us forget our own needs. It could make us strong even when the world was collapsing around us.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Forest of Enchantments
My first lesson on nature of love was that in a moment it could fulfill the cravings of a lifetime, like a light that someone might shine into a cavern that has been dark for a million years.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Forest of Enchantments
Ram and Lakshman had joined their father, who had been housed in a separate palace, at the edge of the royal grounds because it was considered inauspicious for brides and grooms to meet in the days that preceded the wedding. I had to console myself with the fact that in a few days we'd belong to each other. We'd spend the rest of our lives together, and we wouldn't allow any of society's foolish dictates to separate us.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Forest of Enchantments
Love was full of contradictions. Sometimes the person you loved weakened you and sometimes he or she made you a stronger person.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Forest of Enchantments
Write our story, too. For always we've been pushed into corners, trivialized, misunderstood, blamed, forgotten-or maligned and used as cautionary tales.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Forest of Enchantments
It is unfair that one person should suffer in order for others to be blessed. If the gods were powerful enough to shape our destinies, why couldn't they just send us a good fortune untainted by sorrow?
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Forest of Enchantments
Around me celestial flowers are falling in a crystal shower. Or are they the tears of the gods who crowd the skies, looking down in sorrow and admiration at my final act of self-respect?
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Forest of Enchantments
And that is why, O King Ram, I must reject your kind offer to allow me to prove my innocence again. Because this is one of those times when a woman must stand up and say, No more!
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Forest of Enchantments
I forgave you a long time ago,' I say to Ram. 'Though I didn't know it until now. Because this is the most important aspect of love, whose other face is compassion: It isn't doled out, drop by drop. It doesn't measure who is worthy and who isn't. It is like the ocean. Unfathomable. Astonishing. Measureless.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Forest of Enchantments
Instead of consoling us, my mother spoke sternly. 'Pull yourselves together. Surely I've brought you up better than this? we come into the world alone, and we leave it alone. And in between, too, if it is destined, we'll be alone. Draw on your inner strength. Remember, you can be your own worst enemy - or your best friend. It's up to you. And also this: what you can't change, you must endure.'I knew it was mostly to me that she'd spoken. 'Endure'. A word solid as a tree trunk. A good word upon which to build a life, I thought. I would learn it, and it would help me through dark times.
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