"Above us our palace waits, the only one I've ever needed. Its walls are space, its floor is sky, its center everywhere. We rise; the shapes cluster around us in welcome, dissolving and forming again like fireflies in a summer evening."

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Source : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2009). “The Palace of Illusions: A Novel”, p.360, Anchor

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#Summer Quotes #Wall Quotes #Firefly Quotes

“God's path always delivers what He promises.”
“To play a repressed gay man, I had to explore what life was like in an era of sexual repression.”
“No. He says when you're dealing with any kids of supernatural beings, Gods and Devils and angels, you tend to think about them like hurricanes or earthquakes, some kind of mindless force of nature. But if they're real, then they have minds. They know your name. So even reading about the Devil tips him off, he knows instantly he's being read about and that you're somebody he may have to deal with. And I'm thinking what you did in Vegas went way, way beyond that." "What 'I' did? What about us? We were both there." "Yeah but I cut my hair since then. They probably think that was a different guy.”
“I guess I'm just lucky with my genes.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.”
“It surprises me what the girls are capable of doing for me.”
“Everything that I have is natural - braid, nails - I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.”
“Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.”

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