Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

United States, Author
July 29, 1956

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian-American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.

Also known as Poet, Professor

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Heart
- Sometimes
- Depth
A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- World
- Dream
- Persons

There was an unexpected freedom in ﬁnding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Important
- Unexpected
I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Expansive
- Buoyant
Each day has a color, a smell.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Color
Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path , All they do is trip you up

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Path
- Expectations
- Rocks
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
- Air
- Wise
- Silence
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.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Luck
- Special
- Praying