Top 90 Sonali Dev Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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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52. “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

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

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

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55. “Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.”

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56. “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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57. “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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58. “Her eyelids had turned into screens that played her memories on a loop.”

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

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

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63. “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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64. “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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65. “She wanted to bury what was inside her deeper where it would stop haunting her.”

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

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68. “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.”

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

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70. “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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71. “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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72. “He was hungering for the fight they had never had. The one she owed him, but could never give him.”

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

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

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

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77. “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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78. “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

79. “What is more than being friends?”

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

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

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

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

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

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91. “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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92. “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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