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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Mistress of Spices
We had known it would be hard to leave this island of women where on our skin the warm rain fell like pomegranate seeds, where we woke to birdcall and slept to the First Mother's singing, where we swam naked without shame in lakes of blue lotus. To exchange it for the human world whose harshness we remembered. But this?
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Mistress of Spices
til which fried in its own oil restores lustre when one has lost interest in life. I will be Tilottama, the essence of til, life-giver, restorer of health and hope.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Mistress of Spices
Pain, which is ultimately only like itself.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Mistress of Spices
A volte mi chiedo se la realtà esiste davvero, se c'è varamente una natura delle cose, obiettiva e intatta. O se tutto ciò che ci accade è già modificato in anticipo dalla nostra immaginazione. Se sognando qualcosa gli diamo vita.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Mistress of Spices
Maybe it was that sense that comes to us all at some point in the growing-up process, that we are separate from our parents and must suffer our own lives, with our own sorrows. Or maybe it was something simpler, a childish spite, Let her hurt like I'm hurting. And then the light changed and she started driving again.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Mistress of Spices
Open yourself to the sight, and it will show you what you need to know. But never attempt to bend it to your will. Never pry into a particular life that has been brought to your care. That is to break trust.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Mistress of Spices
And under it all, earth waited with her lead-filled veins, impatient to shrug herself clean.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Mistress of Spices
When you begin to weave your own desires into your vision, the true seeing is taken from you.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Mistress of Spices
O exhilaration, I thought. To be lifted up through the eye of chaos, to balance breath-stopped on the edge of nothing. And the plunge that would follow, the shattering of my matchstick body to smithereens, the bones flying free as foam, the heart finally released.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Mistress of Spices
Who held his cries in until red swam behind his eyelids like bleeding stars.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Mistress of Spices
In your yearning you have made me into that which I am not.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Mistress of Spices
When your heart is crusted over with your own pain, it is easy to feel little for others.
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