# The Forest of Enchantments  ## Metadata - Author: [[Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni]] - Full Title: The Forest of Enchantments - Category: #books ## Highlights - Such is the seduction of love: it makes you not want to think too much. It makes you unwilling to question the one you love. ([Location 2181](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07KXBPKNT&location=2181)) - He wasn’t a woman. Time didn’t press on him as heavily. His body wasn’t made to harbour another life. ([Location 2209](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07KXBPKNT&location=2209)) - That’s how love stops us when it might be healthier to speak out, to not let frustration and rage build up until it explodes. ([Location 2218](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07KXBPKNT&location=2218)) - blamed love, too, for my silence. How it makes us back down from protesting because we’re afraid of displeasing the beloved, or because we’re afraid that our disagreement is the symptom of a greater disease: incompatibility of values. ([Location 2367](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07KXBPKNT&location=2367)) - Tags: [[coupletruths]] - All the way back, I pondered the word endure, what it meant. It didn’t mean giving in. It didn’t mean being weak or accepting injustice. It meant taking the challenges thrown at us and dealing with them as intelligently as we knew until we grew stronger than them. ([Location 4946](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07KXBPKNT&location=4946))