Sonali Quotes & Sayings

Seven years on, and their absence has expanded. Just as our life would have in this time, it has swelled. — Sonali Deraniyagala

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

Love is different and more difficult. It has nothing to do with sex.
This is what I tried to make my voices understand. QUietly does love
happen. You're not even thinking about romance, then she smiles and
you notice for the first time that she's not all that plain, her face is
really quite sweet. You watch for her smile and notice that it pushes her
cheeks up into two mango shapes, why should this shape be so
pleaSing, I don't know. Then one evening she puts kajal round her eyes
and brushes her hair, looks quite transformed, and suddenly Sonali
Bendre is not so desirable as this one who's been under your nose for
so long, who's all dolled up to go somewhere you're not going, can
never go. — Indra Sinha

Maybe it is not so overwhelming after all, to dissolve the divide between now and then. — Sonali Deraniyagala

It was too sweet a moment to ruin by speaking mere words. Happiness was the bright blue moon, beaming amidst the bright stars of smiles that enveloped their countenances. — Sonali Dabade

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

I think I also don't confess because I am still so unbelieving of what happened. I am still aghast. I stun myself each time I retell the truth to myself, let alone to someone else. So I am evasive in order to spare myself ... I can see though that my secrecy does me no favors. It probably makes worse my sense of being outlandish. It confirms to me that it might be abhorrent, my story, or that few can relate to it. — Sonali Deraniyagala

I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate. — Sonali Deraniyagala

I was held for a few moments in the coherence and safety of the life we had, when so much seemed predictable. — Sonali Deraniyagala

Fathers are like your BackBone,They will stand by you 4ever N ever. While Mothers are your Heart ... They live with your Happiness N die with Your Sorrow.. — Shweta Sonali

I would plead into the darkness, where are they, bring them back — Sonali Deraniyagala

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

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

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

And as the wind gusted against those windows, I saw how, in an instant, I lost my shelter. This truth had hardly escaped me until then, far from it, but the clarity of that moment was overwhelming. And I am still shaking. — Sonali Deraniyagala

Deep down, he knew. He knew the reason behind the chaos and, in the process of acknowledging it, he fell in love with the concept of chaos. — Sonali Dabade

Their promise, my children's possibilities, still linger in our home. — Sonali Deraniyagala

I was terrified that tomorrow the truth would start. — Sonali Deraniyagala

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

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

Their voices have doubled in strength now, not faded with time. Their chatter plays with my thoughts no end. And I am sustained by this, it gives me spark. — Sonali Deraniyagala

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

I steer clear of telling. I can't come out with it; the outlandish truth of me. How can I reveal this to someone innocent and unsuspecting? With those who know my story I talk freely about us ... but with others I keep it hidden, the truth. I keep it under wraps because I don't want to shock or make anyone distressed ... I try to keep a distance from those who are innocent of my reality. At best I am vague. I feel deceitful at times, but I can't just drop it on someone, I feel. It's too horrifying, too huge. — Sonali Deraniyagala

There must be some atom of our life hidden here, lingering in this quiet somewhere. — Sonali Deraniyagala

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

My boys. I don't have them to hold. What do I do with my arms? — Sonali Deraniyagala

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

How hideous, that there should be a pecking order in my grief. — Sonali Deraniyagala

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