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“The world is changing, and the older generation needs to keep up or shut up.”
― Sajni Patel, The Trouble with Hating You

“He's somehow turned me into a song, into a series of notes.”
― Tashie Bhuiyan, Counting Down with You

“If I'm lightning, then what are you?”
Already I can imagine Ace teasing me but instead he smiles and says, “I'm thunder. I'll follow you wherever you go.”
― Tashie Bhuiyan, Counting Down with You

“I'm still learning your lines, but one day I'll know all of them and I'll never cross them again.”
― Tashie Bhuiyan, Counting Down with You

“I'm a puppet on strings, playing out my parents' dreams.”
― Tashie Bhuiyan, Counting Down with You

“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.”
― Sonali Dev, The Wedding Setup

“Ma’s pet peeve was how the Western world misunderstood the theory of karma. “I mean it’s the Bhagavad Gita they’re bastardizing. What is all this ‘karma’s a bitch’ nonsense!” Ma loved to say. The entire “what goes around comes around” thing was a backward view of karma. Karma was simply Sanskrit for action, and the theory was that your actions are the only thing under your control, as opposed to the fruits of your actions, which are not. And since actions always bear fruit, you were better off focusing your energy on your own actions, rather than worrying about the results you wanted them to produce.”
― Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

“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.”
― Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

“Funny how photographs become the form your memories take.”
― Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

“Is it always so sensitive?"
He took moments to answer as though it cost him an effort. "It's never been before." Lifting her fingers, he kissed them, and then spoke against them. "It's your hands, they're magic."
Heat rose in her cheeks. "I can't believe I actually asked you if you knew what my hands were worth."
There it was again, that laugh. Deep and husky and perfect. "If only I'd known.”
― Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

“There was something about Paris that made you feel you could forget who you were.”
― Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors