Top 90 Sonali Dev Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

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

— Sonali Dev

53. “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

54. “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

55. “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.”

— Sonali Dev

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

— Sonali Dev

57. “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.”

— Sonali Dev

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

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59. “She had spent a year not talking even as everyone tried to pry words out of her. Not being able to talk was about fear, about being terrified of what might come out, of what you might expose.”

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60. “But he’d turned it into something beautiful. He’d always turned all her messy, impulsive, unfettered emotion into something beautiful.”

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61. “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.”

— Sonali Dev

62. “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.”

— Sonali Dev

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

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64. “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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65. “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.”

— Sonali Dev

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

— Sonali Dev

67. “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.”

— Sonali Dev

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

— Sonali Dev

69. “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.”

— Sonali Dev

70. “If you don’t know whether you have feelings for someone or not, that means you don’t have feelings for them.”

— Sonali Dev

71. “The thing about human beings is that they heal,” Ma said. “We’re nature’s creations, we regenerate like the seasons. We just need someone to let us know that we’re worthy of healing.”

— Sonali Dev

72. “She felt something then, something she had only ever felt with Rahul. It had taken her all these years to be able to name it. It was trust. For whatever reason, she had never once in her life doubted that she would get what she needed from him. Not always what she wanted, but what she really needed.”

— Sonali Dev

73. “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.”

— Sonali Dev

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

— Sonali Dev

75. “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.”

— Sonali Dev

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

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77. “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

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

— Sonali Dev

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

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

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81. “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

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

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

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

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

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87. “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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88. “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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89. “The point is that things can be repaired. That they are even more beautiful for having been repaired.”

— Sonali Dev

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

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