Friday, November 14, 2008

'I would love you,' I say, 'no matter who you were. I would love you because you love me. I would love you because no-one else knows us like we know each other.'

'Would you really?' asks Sudha, her voice loosening with relief.

'I would,' I say. There's a strange prickling - like a premonition? - along my backbone as I speak. Even to my own ears my voice sounds green and raw, too young to shore up the promise it's making.

(Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Sister of My Heart)

Love this book. It's a heart-warming and engaging story on sisterhood, a bond so special shared between two girls from Calcutta. A love so true they need not think twice about sacrificing themselves for each other.

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