Top 90 Sonali Dev Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Sonali Dev

52. “Love is accepting the ugliest parts of those you love.”

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

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

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55. “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.”

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56. “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

57. “What is more than being friends?”

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58. “Actually, you two were amazing. I never met two people who were so unafraid of losing each other. So confident of each other’s love.”

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59. “The strangest things in life were precious. Someone to tell you when you were wrong was one of them. “I.”

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60. “In her year without words, a well-meaning art teacher had given her a brush and paints. And for one precious hour, it had set her free.”

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61. “Sometimes all your principles become meaningless in the wake of the sheer force of your feelings.”

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62. “She couldn’t believe she had told him. Now she would forever be a broken pot in his eyes. And yet, speaking those words last night had been like digging shrapnel out of her flesh. She was sore, but the piercing weight of the deeply lodged shards was gone. The relief was indescribable.”

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63. “He could smell the readiness of onion in every one of its stages of cooking and knew exactly what stage worked best for each dish. He could identify the exact rapidity with which milk had to boil before adding the lemon to make the cheese curd separate into paneer. He could sense exactly when to add the tomatoes to tie together the onion, garlic, and ginger so that the curry came together perfectly with the oil separating from it in syrupy rivulets.”

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64. “His voice was the sound of gravel crunching underfoot when you went in search of gravestones.”

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

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66. “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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67. “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.”

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68. “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.”

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

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70. “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.”

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71. “She felt a little bit worse – and a little bit better – than she had when she got here. Maybe that was the true meaning of going home.”

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72. “Sometimes the people you loved didn’t know what was best for them and you had to be their good sense.”

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73. “There was something about Paris that made you feel you could forget who you were.”

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74. “The last thing she wanted to dig into was herself.”

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75. “The chicken first, because saffron is a lazier flavor in terms of how long it takes to surface and register. Then the roti, because truffle oil and fennel both can overwhelm, unless tempered by a palate already coated with a softer spice.”

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

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

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78. “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?”

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79. “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.”

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80. “You can’t learn anything from losing someone you love. Any lesson you learn from that isn’t a lesson. It’s a compromise with life. A lie you tell yourself.”

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81. “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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82. “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.”

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83. “Why were men such complicated beasts anyway? Relationships felt like full-time babysitting jobs crossed with high-level code cracking.”

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84. “You deserve to do what’s best for you.”

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85. “The syntax of prejudice – threaded into conversation with the perfect pauses and facial expressions – was like ciphers and spy codes. The meaning clear to those it was meant for. To everyone else, it was harmless scribbles. Easy enough to deny.”

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86. “The last thing she wanted to dig into was herself. She wanted to bury what was insider her deeper where it would stop haunting her.”

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87. “Keep your mind where your hands are, her aunt always said, and the future will take care of itself.”

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

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89. “He’d woken up at four this morning in Emma’s hospital room to write down an eggplant roulade with tandoori paneer. The magic was in the Indian thyme and garlic chive foam infused into the paneer.”

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

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91. “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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