Top 90 Sonali Dev Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “His voice was the sound of gravel crunching underfoot when you went in search of gravestones.”

— Sonali Dev

52. “Wealth comes and goes, Rahul. Coming from adversity and overcoming it makes you better not worse than those who never have to.”

— Sonali Dev

53. “You’re already breaking your promise. A promise isn’t what you say. It’s what you do.”

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

— Sonali Dev

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

— Sonali Dev

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

— Sonali Dev

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

— Sonali Dev

58. “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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59. “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

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

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61. “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.”

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62. “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

63. “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

64. “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

65. “What is more than being friends?”

— Sonali Dev

66. “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

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

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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.”

— Sonali Dev

69. “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

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

— Sonali Dev

71. “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

72. “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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73. “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

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

— Sonali Dev

75. “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

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

— Sonali Dev

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

— Sonali Dev

79. “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

80. “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

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

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82. “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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83. “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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84. “Keep your mind where your hands are, her aunt always said, and the future will take care of itself.”

— Sonali Dev

85. “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

86. “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

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

— Sonali Dev

88. “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

89. “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

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

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