Devika Fernando > Quotes

“I have always believed that thoughts are more potent in their magic than the spoken word.”
― Devika Fernando, When I see your Face

“All decisions are yours to make – and easy to revise. Whereas it takes a lot of persuasion and time to change the price of your book if you go through a publishing house, being an indie author means you can act quickly.”
― Devika Fernando, Why Go Indie?: 6 Reasons for Self-Publishing Your Book

“She had so many wishes crowding together in her head, jostling for a place at the front of the queue.”
― Devika Fernando, When I see your Face

“We are not given a good life or a bad life. We are given a life. It's up to us to make it good or bad.”
― Devika Fernando, Kaleidoscope of Hopes

“Don’t hate when you can love instead,”
― Devika Fernando, When I see your Face

“You’d make a wonderful fairy. I can just about imagine you in gauzy, loose clothes and diaphanous wings with flowers in your hair and bare feet, dancing lithely through the fields and making lone wanderers fall head over heels in love with you.”
― Devika Fernando, When I see your Face

“Why did life always have to trample on the ones already lying broken on the ground?”
― Devika Fernando, When I see your Face

“She felt her heart beating like a drum and her stomach feeling like a playground for a dozen butterflies.”
― Devika Fernando, When I see your Face

“I’m sorry that I keep making the mistake of forcing your past into the foreground or dwelling on my own past despite claiming the opposite.”
― Devika Fernando, When I see your Face

“Maybe you’ve had the wrong partner all along,” he”
― Devika Fernando, When I see your Face

“Stubbornly, she fought the invisible fetters tying her to another place she didn’t belong to.”
― Devika Fernando, When I see your Face

“realizing that she wasn’t so much filled with trepidation as with anticipation. With every beat,”
― Devika Fernando, When I see your Face

“You can only get hurt if you allow it. You can only find happiness if you search for it. You can only succeed if you try and maybe fail along the way. It's all in your hands. It's all up to you. You can't wish for a second chance, you are the second chance.”
― Devika Fernando, Kaleidoscope of Hopes

“You can be a patriot and still be away from home. It’s the connection deep inside that counts,”
― Devika Fernando, The Prince's Stubborn Bride

“The icing on the cake?”
― Devika Fernando, When I see your Face

“Don’t say you know when you’re only guessing and assuming the worst,”
― Devika Fernando, When I see your Face