"Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible."

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Source : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2014). “Oleander Girl: A Novel”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#Grief Quotes #Detours Quotes #Sides Quotes

“I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire.”
“All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke.”
“It seems to me that the contrast between adjacent syllables has lessened and the result is an over-reliance on enjambment. Now enjambment is a fine, intellectually strong aid, but like all such things it becomes tiresome and calls too much attention to itself.”
“My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.”
“We should try our best to pour out all the burdens in our spirit by prayer until all of them have left us.”
“What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over some billions of years and through an endless sequence of groping, of trials and errors, has produced such a magnificent array of living forms, forms capable of seasonal self-renewal over vast periods of time.”
“American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.”
“The best ideas and the most useful and ground-breaking are often, though not always, in one sense, very simple ideas.”

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