Top 90 Sonali Dev Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Child, don’t wait until it’s too late. Lost time is lost forever.”

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2. “I want you to love me for me, for now, for as much time as we have. I swear I’ll do all I can to take care of myself. I already do. But that’s it. If that’s enough, I’m yours. If you can only love me if you have a guarantee that I’ll be around forever, then find someone else to be terrified of losing and let me go.”

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3. “Sometimes you just have to have faith. Sometimes you have to leap first to see if your parachute will open.”

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4. “Our dreams are often too large for reality to ever match up.”

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5. “Growing up, we were surrounded by stories of women being married off without their consent, and it was always about how they compromised, reconciled, and found love in the end. It was romanticized so much. What an abhorrent thing to tell someone – that your love isn’t where your interest lie, or that your parents know what’s best for you better than you do.”

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6. “She could hardly tell him it was because the child had been born a girl, destined from birth to be bound and gagged, to never be free. And she seemed to have sensed it far sooner than most. Sadly, the poor fool seemed to believe that she could actually do something about it.”

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7. “They were surrounded by people, seemingly enjoying the company, but they kept stealing glances at each other as if everything else were just a distraction. It.”

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8. “I’d rather have a large life than a long one.” It was a line from a film Bhanu loved. No life could be large in its entirety. Even a life that looked large from the outside was mostly mundane, filled with day-to-day struggles. But if you were lucky, you got to have moments – experiences and relationships – that were so big they made the rest of your life feel large. What I had with Bhanu altered the dimension of my lifetime.”

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9. “Whatever the case, we want to change things around us. Because we want to matter, and we believe that our work makes us matter. The work isn’t the end, it’s the means for what we really want: to matter.”

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10. “Ah, fresh young love! It was like the smell of cumin roasting in butter: you couldn’t hide it for anything.”

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11. “There’s a difference between benevolence and stupidity and even God knows it.”

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12. “I wish there was a word for what you’re doing. I wish there was a word for being blind to someone’s situation because you think you know how it feels and you use some tiny part of your own experience and extrapolate it to theirs without realizing that you have a choice and that they have none.”

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13. “You just have to trust yourself, beta. Focus on what matters to you and don’t let it get all mixed up with what others want.”

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14. “It’s just that sometimes people who appear strongest on the outside can hurt the hardest on the inside.”

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15. “If only she’d known then that the cycle of belief, which caused the world to work the way it did, could be broken only by disproving one lie at a time. Women were here today, where they had power, where they had a voice, because molecule by molecule, moment by moment, choice by choice, someone had called out the lies peddled as truth. It had been a boulder the size of the earth, and changing the direction of its spin couldn’t happen at one go.”

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16. “Oh, to have the confidence of a mediocre man.”

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17. “Courage wasn’t only fighting your circumstances; sometimes making peace with your circumstances required more courage.”

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18. “She had learned to use her silence as armor and her memories as escape from the sniggers and name-calling.”

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19. “The ever-present tangle of lies tightened around her like a hunter’s net. The more she pushed it away, the more it clung to her like sticky, spindly spiderwebs. But the truth had to remain hidden inside the godforsaken asylum and inside the one of silence that was Uma, Vijay, and her, and tragically enough, Vikram’s mother.”

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20. “Once the tears started she didn’t know how to stop them. Words and tears – they were the twin gauges of her mental health that took over when she lost control, one drying up, the other oozing from her without consent. She.”

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21. “You put your soul into something and people think they can pass judgment on it just like that.” She snapped her fingers. “I’ll never get used to the critics.”

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22. “Why was it that it took losing things to recognize the full value of them?”

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23. “But with evil the roots are as deep and branched as the oldest tree. The motivations are such a spiderweb of nature and nurture and choice and anger and greed and hatred all woven into a sticky mess.”

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24. “Deserve was such a strange word, throwing out both blame and accolades with equal mercilessness. Society’s skewed scale for assigning a value to human beings. How many times had he been judged and found lacking? Was there ever a way to measure what anyone deserved? Or was it just another way to pretend that the randomness of the universe made sense?”

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25. “What could be more than being friends? What could be more than what it felt like to wait by the phone to hear that she was okay? More than waiting to discuss every case with her?”

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26. “Yoga made her mind race all over the place instead of centering it, which made all that breathing and stretching pointless.”

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27. “I want you, exactly the way you are today, the way you’ll be tomorrow, and fifty years from now. And I want you to want me enough to deal with whatever happens. I can’t promise you’ll be okay. But without you I will never be okay. And I know that without me you will never be okay either.”

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28. “Why are we supposed to be ashamed of our own nakedness? Doesn’t that turn the vessel we live in, our most precious possession, into an ugly secret?”

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29. “She had never been the most social person. Rico hadn’t either. They’d been two self-contained teenagers who had somehow cracked each other’s shells and further destroyed each other’s ability to need other people. This version of her, the one who was so acutely aware of people’s reaction to her, made him want to break her loose.”

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30. “You should smell the mangoes in India. They smell like sugar melting in the summer heat. How do these have no aroma at all?”

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31. “Time. The starkest truth of life – either you didn’t have enough or then it went on and on.”

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32. “People think secrets are about lies, or shame. But what secrets are really about is fear.”

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33. “Sometimes I don’t know exactly how to navigate what I’m feeling. I don’t know if what I’m feeling is real or right or how to go on around it. I feel several things about one thing and it’s a vortex and I get stuck in it.”

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34. “Why is it easier to claim those we lost while forgetting those we rescued?”

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35. “When he threaded his fingers through her hair and tugged her lips to his, she had melted in his arms, crumbled into infinite pieces, and allowed every single one of them to merge into him. Her.”

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36. “Dancing is the real plastic surgery,” Uma loved to say. “It’s what keeps you young.”

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37. “Happiness seeps into me when you’re around, Rico. Without invitation, without notice, joy finds me. Being around you is being alive, it’s breathing, it’s home.”

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38. “Energy was a healer and touch brought awareness to the part of your body that needed attention, and that had its own power.”

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39. “It’s okay to do what feels easy and to trust that the universe won’t punish you for it.”

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40. “The fact that you have the things you have isn’t wrong. Not understanding what you have is.”

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41. “Funny how photographs become the form your memories take.”

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42. “He had never felt so out of control. Not even as a hormonal teenager. She took his control. She had taken his ability to hold back last night. Stripped him to the bone.”

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43. “How so much pain and such happiness could fit in the tiny space inside her, Ria didn’t know.”

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44. “It was paranoia and it was part of her special gift of depression, along with sadness and fear.”

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45. “Sometime soon she would work her way up to being upset. Right now she was just glad to find the strength to go on chewing. As.”

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46. “Love, friendship – with her it had never been two different things. Him and her – they had never been different either. If they had, all the destruction around them would have separated them. But it hadn’t.”

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47. “The point is that things can be repaired. That they are even more beautiful for having been repaired.”

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48. “Would it be all right to top the crab kachoris with date chutney foam, so the hors d’oeuvre could be circulated without a mess? Should the chicken be served over a bed of pulav or plated individually in bowls?”

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49. “Why did human beings need love from where they wanted it rather than from where they were getting it?”

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50. “Her eyelids had turned into screens that played her memories on a loop.”

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