Suddenly he reached out and pulled a half-burnt stick from the fire. He thrust it at me so that I flinched back.
“What are you doing?” I cried startled and angry.
“Trying to show you something. The stick, it scared you. it may have even hurt you, if you hadn’t been so quick. But look-in trying to burn you, it’s consuming itself. That is what happens to a heart-“
-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Could be life altering..
ReplyDeleteAnd yet it burns, has a craving for it, strange heart, strange fire, soothing burns.
ReplyDeleteNice quote.
it is a good read, try it out if you can get the book somewhere.
ReplyDeleteWow! Brilliant! Such a power punch in so few words!:-)
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