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| d68e3a5 | After a while, Hannah said, "I heard Papa and Mama talking last night. Mama told Papa she thinks John Larkin is fond of me." To my annoyance, a little smile danced across her face. "I'm fond of John too," she admitted, "but Papa--" Hannah bit her lip and frowned. "Papa said a girl with my notions will never find a husband. He told Mama I'd end up an old-maid suffragette. Those were his very words, Andrew." Forgetting everything except makin.. | Mary Downing Hahn | ||
| 3d9109c | I trudged home by myself, worrying about the trestle. What was I supposed to do there? If Andrew had dreamed it up, it was sure to be terrible. Maybe I'd have to lie down between the rails and let the train run over me. Boys did that in stories, but I wasn't sure it worked in real life. It seemed to me you'd be gouged to death by things hanging from the bottoms of boxcars. I thought a little longer. Maybe it had something to do with explosi.. | Mary Downing Hahn | ||
| 2d95cb0 | That night, I startled Andrew by striding right up to him in the attic and shoving my face close to his. For once, I was too angry to be scared of him. "You didn't tell me Papa beat you!" Andrew raised his eyebrows. "Do you mean to say you finally earned a whipping?" "It's not funny--he hit me with his belt!" "Oh, horsefeathers. If Papa thought you deserved it, you probably did." Andrew studied my face. "I hope you didn't cry." "Of course I.. | Mary Downing Hahn | ||
| 4e23cd0 | It must be a shock to see us so old," Hannah said. "I'm afraid I couldn't climb a tree or shoot a marble if my life depended on it. Neither could Andrew, but I doubt he'll admit it." "If I put my mind to it," Andrew said, "I could beat Drew with one hand tied behind my back. He was never any match for me." Hannah raised her eyebrows. "It seems to me he outplayed you once." "Pshaw. What's one game?" If Aunt Blythe hadn't come back just then,.. | Mary Downing Hahn | ||
| 29bf291 | When Dad pulled up in front of the house, the three of us sat still for a moment and stared at the gloomy pile of bricks my great-aunt called home. Up close, it looked even worse than it had from a distance. Ivy clung to the walls, spreading over windows and doors. A wisteria vine heavy with bunches of purple blossoms twisted around the porch columns. Paint peeled, loose shutters banged in the wind, slates from the roof littered the overgro.. | Mary Downing Hahn | ||
| 4d448f9 | I told you before--you mustn't let Edward scare you. He's a bully and a coward. What would Frank Merriwell do if he were you?" Frank Merriwell--I was thoroughly sick of hearing that name." | Mary Downing Hahn | ||
| 64a4f6b | To keep from crying in front of everyone, I ran down the hall, opened the first door I saw, and dashed inside. Too late I realized the room was already occupied. An old man in a wheelchair sat beside a window. Of all the places I might have gone, I'd chosen Great-grandfather's sanctuary. | Mary Downing Hahn | ||
| 1662623 | I told you before--you mustn't let Edward scare you. He's a bully and a coward. What would Frank Merriwell do if he were you?" Frank Merriwell--I was thoroughly sick of hearing that name. "I don't care what some dumb guy in a story would do. I'm not going to fight Edward." "Fight me then." Hannah raised her fists and danced around on her bare feet, bouncing, ducking, and swinging at the air around my head. "Pretend I'm Edward!" I ducked a p.. | Mary Downing Hahn | ||
| da23f92 | You'll never be the heavyweight champion of the world," he said, "but you should be able to duck anything Edward throws at you." Theo wanted his turn, but John said it was too hot for more lessons. He looked up into the tree where Hannah sat swinging her feet, and smiled. "Maybe your sister will come down from her perch and offer us a nice cold glass of lemonade." Hannah gave her hand to John and allowed him to help her. "Not that I need yo.. | Mary Downing Hahn | ||
| a671e4f | Brandishing a green mallet, Hannah grinned at John. "We'll take sides. You and me against Andrew and Theo." Hannah went first. Theo and I watched her knock her ball through the first two wickets and aim for the third. She missed and stepped back to let Theo take his turn. I leaned on my mallet and waited. It had taken me a while to understand the game, but once I learned the rules, I'd become a pretty good strategist. As soon as I had the o.. | Mary Downing Hahn | ||
| a752550 | What makes the new ark holy? The old ark contained the word of God written in stone; Mary contained in her womb the Word of God Who became man and dwelt among us. The ark contained manna; Mary contained the living bread come down from heaven. The ark contained the rod of the high priest Aaron; Mary's womb contained the eternal high priest, Jesus Christ. In the heavenly temple, the Word of God is Jesus, and the ark in whom he resides is Mary.. | Scott Hahn | ||
| 908cab5 | Our voices sounded small in the noisy darkness. We called her name again and again. We waved our flashlights in hope that she'd see their bobbing light. We were hoarse from calling. And desperate when she didn't answer. The faint trail gave out, and we began circling back to the house without realizing it until we saw the lights in the windows. "We need to call the police," Dad said. "We don't know the land the way they do. We'll get lost o.. | Mary Downing Hahn | ||
| 295baa3 | But when I see Sudha, her face bright with a simple, generous joy, the walls I'd set up so carefully collapse around me like a house of cards. Inside my heart it feels like a wet, new rain. In spite of all my insecurities, in spite of the oceans that'll be between us soon and the men that are between us already, I can never stop loving Sudha. It's my habit, and it's my fate. | reunion | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | |
| 52abade | The pleasures that arise from sense-objects are bound to end, and thus they are only sources of pain. Don't get attached to them. And: When a man reaches a state where honor and dishonor are alike to him, then he is considered supreme. Strive to gain such a state. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| d7e59e7 | why man found himself driven to wrongdoing in spite of good intentions, Krishna replied, Because of anger and desire, our two direst enemies. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 444796a | 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. | immigrant-fiction india indian indian-american mothers-and-daughters novel | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | |
| 34ba20b | 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. | child-narrator divakaruni fiction immigrant-fiction india indian-american mothers-and-daughters novel women-s-fiction | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | |
| 0a7a1ce | Good daughters are fortunate lamps, brightening the family's name. Wicked daughters are firebrands, blackening the family's fame. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 0263858 | In the white marble hall of the hotel, I'm waltzing with Rajat. The music is a river and we're dancing in it. It winds against our bodies, muscular as a serpent. | family-relationships immigration indian-fiction literary-fiction mystery | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | |
| d5a8429 | Love comes like lightning , and disappears the same way.. If you are lucky it strikes you right.. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 1cbb383 | When you begin to weave your own desires into your vision, the true seeing is taken from you. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| e5a5049 | Why are you attracted to self-sabotage? I | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 7048f20 | And under it all, earth waited with her lead-filled veins, impatient to shrug herself clean. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 892049c | Who is truly wealthy? That man to whom the agreeable and disagreeable, wealth and woe, past and future, are the same. What is the most wondrous thing on earth? | Chitra Lekha Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| ff4f8c2 | Open yourself to the sight, and it will show you what you need to know. But never attempt to bend it to your will. Never pry into a particular life that has been brought to your care. That is to break trust. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 4498fcf | I want to weep too, not for me but for us all--for rich or poor, educated or illiterate, here we are finally reduced to a sameness in this sisterhood of deprivation. | truths | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | |
| 6aac194 | American-Statesman | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| e248c88 | Maybe it was that sense that comes to us all at some point in the growing-up process, that we are separate from our parents and must suffer our own lives, with our own sorrows. Or maybe it was something simpler, a childish spite, Let her hurt like I'm hurting. And then the light changed and she started driving again. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 0ed41cd | expectations are like hidden rocks in your path, all they do is trip you up. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 70ccf22 | Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path--all they do is trip you up. . | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 0973a8f | They say in the old tales that when a man and a woman exchange looks the way we did, their spirits mingle. Their gaze is a rope of gold binding each to the other. Even if they never meet again, they carry a little of the other with them always. They can never forget, and they can never be wholly happy again. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| bf10607 | And have you come to set me free finally, Govinda?" he asked. "Have I paid sufficiently for my theft?" | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| bf4988f | You did what you were supposed to. Played your part perfectly. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 470c53f | The herbs and chants weren't working because of my anger towards Ram. In some dark part of my soul, I wanted him to suffer. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 0f621d5 | I don't agree with you that the private life must be sacrificed for the public one. And that is the final advice that I leave for my children: my dearest boys, balance duty with love. Trust me, it can be done. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 31c9d7a | For isn't that what our homes are ultimately, our fantasies made corporeal, our secret selves exposed? The converse is also true: we grow to become that which we live within. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| da62030 | In the temple, I sit on the cool floor next to Grandfather, beneath the stern benevolence of the goddess's glance. Grandfather is clad in only a traditional silk dhoti--no fancy modern clothes for him. That's one of the things I admire about him, how he is always unapologetically, uncompromisingly himself. His spine is erect and impatient; white hairs blaze across his chest. | india literary-fiction mystery novel suspense | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | |
| 758f731 | All of us groping in caverns, our fingertips raw against stone, searching for that slight crack, the edge of a door opening into love. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| fb43a76 | Asif Ali maneuvers the gleaming Mercedes down the labyrinthine lanes of Old Kolkata with consummate skill, but his passengers do not notice how smoothly he avoids potholes, cows and beggars, how skilfully he sails through aging yellow lights to get the Bose family to their destination on time. This disappoints Asif only a little. In his six years of chauffeuring the rich and callous, he has realized that, to them, servants are invisible. | family-relationships immigrant-experience india literary-fiction suspense usa | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | |
| ca49c4b | Most of all, I understood that things happen to us for many complicated reasons, arising from both the past and the future. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 0cc175a | Who am I to say that small joys are less valuable than a passion which shatters your life? | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 06373ff | If you want to stand up against wrongdoing, if you want to bring about change, do it in a way that doesn't bruise a man's pride. You'll have a better chance of success. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| b5b26b6 | He never wasted time, Ram, especially on things he believed he couldn't change. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| fad4c35 | Just as you've deceived me, so will your mind deceive you. When you need the Brahmastra the most, you'll forget the mantra needed to call it up. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |