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Top 90 Sonali Dev Quotes (2025 Update)

Sonali Dev Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “Child, don’t wait until it’s too late. Lost time is lost forever.”

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

Sonali Dev Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “Sometimes you just have to have faith. Sometimes you have to leap first to see if your parachute will open.”

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

Sonali Dev Quote: “Our dreams are often too large for reality to ever match up.”

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

Sonali Dev Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “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.”

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.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “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.”

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.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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

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

Sonali Dev Quote: “There’s a difference between benevolence and stupidity and even God knows it.”

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

Sonali Dev Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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

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

Sonali Dev Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “Oh, to have the confidence of a mediocre man.”

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

Sonali Dev Quote: “Courage wasn’t only fighting your circumstances; sometimes making peace with your circumstances required more courage.”

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

Sonali Dev Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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

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

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

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

Sonali Dev Quote: “People think secrets are about lies, or shame. But what secrets are really about is fear.”

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

Sonali Dev Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “Why is it easier to claim those we lost while forgetting those we rescued?”

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

Sonali Dev Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

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

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

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

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

Sonali Dev Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “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.”

29. “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.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “Why was it that it took losing things to recognize the full value of them?”

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

Sonali Dev Quote: “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.”

31. “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.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “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?”

32. “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?”

Sonali Dev Quote: “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?”

33. “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?”

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

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

Sonali Dev Quote: “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.”

35. “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.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “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?”

36. “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?”

Sonali Dev Quote: “It wasn’t like he wasn’t capable of happiness. It was almost as if he held himself away from it just the slightest bit. He felt undeserving of it, mistrustful of it, and the unfairness of that made her want to shake some sense into his stubborn head.”

37. “It wasn’t like he wasn’t capable of happiness. It was almost as if he held himself away from it just the slightest bit. He felt undeserving of it, mistrustful of it, and the unfairness of that made her want to shake some sense into his stubborn head.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “She wanted to bury what was inside her deeper where it would stop haunting her.”

38. “She wanted to bury what was inside her deeper where it would stop haunting her.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “What kind of monsters walked the earth? He couldn’t bring himself to call them animals. Because animals never took what wasn’t theirs. Never took something only because it was vulnerable, never destroyed what was beautiful simply because they could.”

39. “What kind of monsters walked the earth? He couldn’t bring himself to call them animals. Because animals never took what wasn’t theirs. Never took something only because it was vulnerable, never destroyed what was beautiful simply because they could.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “When I was too young to know better, I dreamed of a white knight. Someone who’d rescue me, protect me, keep me from harm. By the time I found him, all I wanted was for him to know I didn’t need protecting.”

40. “When I was too young to know better, I dreamed of a white knight. Someone who’d rescue me, protect me, keep me from harm. By the time I found him, all I wanted was for him to know I didn’t need protecting.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “Fate wasn’t destiny. Destiny was the assorted pieces of ourselves tied up in a cloth pouch that we hung on a stick and slung over our shoulder like a hobo. Fate was what we did with those pieces when we unpacked that pouch and chose which pieces we reached for and which ones we hid away.”

41. “Fate wasn’t destiny. Destiny was the assorted pieces of ourselves tied up in a cloth pouch that we hung on a stick and slung over our shoulder like a hobo. Fate was what we did with those pieces when we unpacked that pouch and chose which pieces we reached for and which ones we hid away.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “Not that he had come anywhere near attaining her skill at managing hope. She could balance it like a juggler – let it soar and curb it and pass it from hand to hand. She could spin hope and spin herself through it. Forget mere juggling; she was a veritable trapeze artist with this hope thing.”

42. “Not that he had come anywhere near attaining her skill at managing hope. She could balance it like a juggler – let it soar and curb it and pass it from hand to hand. She could spin hope and spin herself through it. Forget mere juggling; she was a veritable trapeze artist with this hope thing.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “What is more than being friends?”

43. “What is more than being friends?”

Sonali Dev Quote: “One thing he’d say about her- she blushed like no one else he’d ever met. Her gorgeous skin went from warm brown to an almost fiery pink. It didn’t help that Rico knew she was blushing with her entire body right now. He had loved to chase that blush across her skin.”

44. “One thing he’d say about her- she blushed like no one else he’d ever met. Her gorgeous skin went from warm brown to an almost fiery pink. It didn’t help that Rico knew she was blushing with her entire body right now. He had loved to chase that blush across her skin.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “You find the most important things in life suddenly. And it’s almost funny how ordinary those extraordinary moments feel.”

45. “You find the most important things in life suddenly. And it’s almost funny how ordinary those extraordinary moments feel.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “He put a pan on the stove and roasted the rumali roti quarters for half a minute on each side just until the butter in the dough sizzled, then placed them on a plate and trickled them with truffle oil. Then he placed a paper-thin slice of heart of fennel dusted with roasted cumin over them. In a bowl next to that, he laid out chicken in the simplest Mughlai sauce of steamed onion in cream with the slightest hint of saffron. Finally, he tucked a perfectly curled papad into the bowl.”

46. “He put a pan on the stove and roasted the rumali roti quarters for half a minute on each side just until the butter in the dough sizzled, then placed them on a plate and trickled them with truffle oil. Then he placed a paper-thin slice of heart of fennel dusted with roasted cumin over them. In a bowl next to that, he laid out chicken in the simplest Mughlai sauce of steamed onion in cream with the slightest hint of saffron. Finally, he tucked a perfectly curled papad into the bowl.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “It doesn’t matter what my life has been like, Samir. What matters is hope. If you don’t believe in a happy ending, what are you living for?”

47. “It doesn’t matter what my life has been like, Samir. What matters is hope. If you don’t believe in a happy ending, what are you living for?”

Sonali Dev Quote: “He was hungering for the fight they had never had. The one she owed him, but could never give him.”

48. “He was hungering for the fight they had never had. The one she owed him, but could never give him.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “She was the kind of star who sold happy dreams. She didn’t want to sell darkness. Pain was best left in the real world where it belonged, where it burrowed so deep you needed a multimillion-dollar industry to escape from it.”

49. “She was the kind of star who sold happy dreams. She didn’t want to sell darkness. Pain was best left in the real world where it belonged, where it burrowed so deep you needed a multimillion-dollar industry to escape from it.”

Sonali Dev Quote: “I don’t have to be here to do this, she had told herself, and then she’d let her body become whom it needed to be. Unlike.”

50. “I don’t have to be here to do this, she had told herself, and then she’d let her body become whom it needed to be. Unlike.”

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