“Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when their dream coincides with ours, the way two cutout designs laid one on top of the other might match. But dream worlds are not static like cutouts; sooner or later they change shape, leading to misunderstanding, loneliness and loss of love.” WorldWayTwoDreamMightMotherUniverseLossHeardLonelinessDesignShapesSooner Or LaterMisunderstandingStaticDream WorldLove Loss Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
“the darkness is a cresting wave. It sweeps me up out of my body until I float among the stars, those tine bright pores on the sky's skin. If only I could pass through them, I would end up on the other side, the right side, shadowless, perfectly illuminated, beyond the worries of this mundane world” IfsWorldEndsBodyStarsSidesDarknessWorrySkySkinsWaveFloatsMundane Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
“A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.” WorldPersonsDreamFoolIlliterateTelegramsIlliterate Person Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
“Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women.” WorldGirlHarderPresses Book:Oleander Girl: A Novel Source: Oleander Girl: A Novel