Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

You might want to be able to close a chapter of your life, but I don't believe that you ever do completely.

Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him.

I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.

For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.

There are people in your past that you can't shake free from no matter how hard you tried. There's a certain process that you have to go through to say goodbye. That fire doesn't get extinguished. You have to put a gun to it.

When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.

For me, once I've worked on something and it's finished, it's like an ex-boyfriend: you don't go back to them.

Women hang onto the romanticism of a relationship. But a man compartmentalises it into the past and then gets on with his new life.

You have to decide when it is time to move on.

The past is the past and besides it's passed

Sometimes you revisit things and relationships, and then you get going on in it, and you realized that there is a reason this ended.

You can't live in the past.

Once you get it in your head you're finished with something, to go back, it hurts.

It's been cool to catch up, but I think I'm done with my exes. To be honest, I went out with flying colors on the majority of them.

There is no point staying on the past.

I'm pretty sure we've all had a situation where a certain ex or person finds their way back in your life. I've realized that it's not about dwelling over it and overthinking.

It's tough for me to move on from places, even though I realize that it's not only necessary but very important to be able to do so.

I get on with all my exes, so there's nothing I need to forget about. I don't know - life is shorter than it seems.

Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously.

You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.

Problem is, you can’t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a dog at the dump, baby – you’re just lickin’ at the empty tin can, trying to get more nutrition out of it. And if you’re not careful, that can’s gonna get stuck on your snout forever and make your life miserable. So drop it.” “But I love him.” “So love him.” “But I miss him.” “So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.

You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.

I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest." Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.

Moving on is easy what your leaving behind is what makes it hard.

the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.