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“A dream is a telegram from the hidden world… Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.” (Queen of Dreams Quotes)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Queen of Dreams
“But some things can’t be told that way, I know that now. They can only be approached stealthily, from behind, like wild birds. And even then they catch your scent and take flight before you throw your net of words over them.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Queen of Dreams
“Each word she’d set down in the journals was a gift and a wound.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Queen of Dreams
“Everyone breathes in air, but it’s a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Queen of Dreams
“I closed my eyes and willed my breath to slow, my conscious mind to fold itself inward. I could feel heat pulsing from my daughter’s head, her frantic thoughts whirling like broken glass. I loosened my hold on my body and dropped into that whirlpool.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Queen of Dreams
“I liked his voice, rich and unself-conscious even when he forgot words and hummed to fill in the gap. What I didn’t understand, I imagined, and thus it became a love song.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Queen of Dreams
“In life, it’s best not to take anything for free – unless it’s from someone who wishes you well.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Queen of Dreams
“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.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Queen of Dreams
“Once I said to my mother, As long as there’s fresh bread in this world, things can’t be beyond repair.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Queen of Dreams
“Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Queen of Dreams
“The dream is a mirror showing me my beauty. I bless the dream. The dream is a mirror showing me my ugliness. I bless the dream.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Queen of Dreams
“The dream is not a drug but a way. Listen to where it can take you.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Queen of Dreams
“Watching them, I feel at once happy and lonely. It’s not the loneliness of being without a mate, but something more primal. As though I were the only being left on this side of the glass, while the rest of the world—happy, uncaring—lived out its life on the other side.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Queen of Dreams
“Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don’t, it turns gangrenous and kills you. But sometimes words can break a feeling into pieces.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Queen of Dreams
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