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“After that, somehow, I began fixing things in my life. Dr Berger says being close to death will do that, but I’m not sure catalysts of change can be so easily identified.” (Before We Visit the Goddess Quotes)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Before We Visit the Goddess
“But inside loss there can be gain, too, like the small silver spider Bela had discovered one dewy morning, curled asleep at the center of a rose.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Before We Visit the Goddess
“Good daughters are fortunate lamps, brightening the family’s name.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Before We Visit the Goddess
“Good daughters are fortunate lamps, brightening the family’s name. Wicked daughters are firebrands, blackening the family’s fame.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Before We Visit the Goddess
“I don’t put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Before We Visit the Goddess
“I guess that’s when people call their mothers – when their world is falling apart.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Before We Visit the Goddess
“I long to stretch out on the sofa, wrapping myself in the red quilt that’s lying there. Then, with a stab, I recognize the quilt. My father had brought it back from a business trip he took to New England long ago. Ironic, how objects remain in your life long after people have exited.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Before We Visit the Goddess
“It felt as though someone had reached into him and was wresting out his heart. In later life his sorrows would be deep-drawn and bone-aching sad, but never like this. Perhaps only the young can feel such exquisitely intense pain.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Before We Visit the Goddess
“My mother clutches at the collar of my shirt. I rub her back and feel her tears on my neck. It’s been decades since our bodies have been this close. It’s an odd sensation, like a torn ligament knitting itself back, lumpy and imperfect, usable as long as we know not to push it too hard.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Before We Visit the Goddess
“Pain makes us crazy. All we want is to throw the live coal of it as far from us as we can, not thinking what we might set afire.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Before We Visit the Goddess
“Push away the past, that vessel in which all emotions curdle to regret.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Before We Visit the Goddess
“She did understand about sacrificing values for the sake of love. It was a lesson all mothers had to memorize.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Before We Visit the Goddess
“She lifts her eyes, and there is Death in the corner, but not like a king with his iron crown, as the epics claimed. Why, it is a giant brush loaded with white paint. It descends upon her with gentle suddenness, obliterating the shape of the world.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Before We Visit the Goddess
“So many photos, so carefully preserved. How absurdly central I’d been to my mother’s life.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Before We Visit the Goddess
