Sonali Dev Quotes & Sayings

Her eyelids had turned into screens that played her memories on a loop. — Sonali Dev

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

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

The strangest things in life were precious. Someone to tell you when you were wrong was one of them. "I — Sonali Dev

Why was it that it took losing things to recognize the full value of them? — Sonali Dev

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

She wanted to bury what was inside her deeper where it would stop haunting her. — Sonali Dev

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. — Sonali Dev

The last thing she wanted to dig into was herself. — Sonali Dev

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

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

How so much pain and such happiness could fit in the tiny space inside her, Ria didn't know. — Sonali Dev

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

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

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. "Babes, — Sonali Dev

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 — Sonali Dev

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