A Bollywood Affair Quotes

“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, A Bollywood Affair

“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, A Bollywood Affair

“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, A Bollywood Affair

“I want you, exactly the way you are today, the way you'll be tomorrow, and fifty years from now. And I want you to want me enough to deal with whatever happens. I can't promise you'll be okay. But without you I will never be okay. And I know that without me you will never be okay either.”
― Sonali Dev, The Bollywood Bride

“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, A Bollywood Affair

“There's a difference between benevolence and stupidity and even God knows it.”
― Sonali Dev, A Bollywood Affair

“Dancing is the real plastic surgery," Uma loved to say. "It's what keeps you young.”
― Sonali Dev, The Bollywood Bride

“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, The Bollywood Bride

“The last thing she wanted to dig into was herself.”
― Sonali Dev, The Bollywood Bride

“It was paranoia and it was part of her special gift of depression, along with sadness and fear.”
― Sonali Dev, The Bollywood Bride

“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, The Bollywood Bride

“But you know what else I figured out? That there’s more to life than chasing shit. That I didn’t have to achieve things to be someone everyone wants me to be. “Oh,”
― Sonali Dev, The Bollywood Bride

“How so much pain and such happiness could fit in the tiny space inside her, Ria didn’t know.”
― Sonali Dev, The Bollywood Bride

“The strangest things in life were precious. Someone to tell you when you were wrong was one of them. “I”
― Sonali Dev, The Bollywood Bride

“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, The Bollywood Bride

“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.”
― Sonali Dev, The Bollywood Bride

“You want to be friends? he'd asked her. And her life had changed.”
― Sonali Dev, The Bollywood Bride

“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 Bollywood Bride

“He was hungering for the fight they had never had. The one she owed him, but could never give him.”
― Sonali Dev, The Bollywood Bride

“She wanted to bury what was inside her deeper where it would stop haunting her.”
― Sonali Dev, The Bollywood Bride

“Whatever that thought was that just popped into your head. That's your answer. That's divine intervention, beta. The rest is all courage and choice.”
― Sonali Dev, A Bollywood Affair

“Are you crying?"
"No, it's raining, but only on my face.”
― Sonali Dev, A Bollywood Affair

“She had learned to use her silence as armor and her memories as escape from the sniggers and name-calling.”
― Sonali Dev, The Bollywood Bride

“Child, don't wait until it's too late. Lost time is lost forever.”
― Sonali Dev, A Bollywood Affair

“Keep your mind where your hands are, her aunt always said, and the future will take care of itself.”
― Sonali Dev, The Bollywood Bride

“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, A Bollywood Affair

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― Sonali Dev, A Bollywood Affair

“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, The Bollywood Bride

“Her eyelids had turned into screens that played her memories on a loop.”
― Sonali Dev, The Bollywood Bride

“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, The Bollywood Bride