"Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck."

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Source : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1997). “The Mistress of Spices”, Doubleday

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#Sunday Quotes #Light Quotes #Glowing Quotes

“Naturally there will come a time, when I will have to say goodbye, but I've soul-searched and this is not the time,”

Source : "Legendary announcer Scully to return for 66th season". www.foxnews.com. July 29, 2014.
“A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.”
“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obamaâ€™s â€˜death panelâ€™ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their â€˜level of productivity in society,â€™ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.”
“I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. [...] There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.”
“Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again.”

Source : Ernst Hanfstaengl (2011). “Hitler: The Memoir of the Nazi Insider Who Turned Against the Fuhrer”, p.178, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“There is no beginning that is a blank page,”

Source : Amitava Kumar (2013). “Bombay--London--New York”, p.17, Routledge
“The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.”
“To put it bluntly and plainly, if Christ is not my Substitute, I still occupy the place of a condemned sinner. If my sins and my guilt are not transferred to Him, if He did not take them upon Himself, then surely they remain with me. If He did not deal with my sins, I must face their consequences. If my penalty was not borne by Him, it still hangs over me. There is no other possibility.”

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