There's Something About Mira Quotes

“It is hard to do the thing you want when you’ve been taught that doing what others want means loving them.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“There’s nothing more universally human than pain. And yet, identifying what causes it, then understanding how to address it: there’s nothing more individual than that.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“People are dicks, Miru. Society has given them permission to be dicks as long as their evil is focused on those who can’t protect themselves.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“If you’re in love, if your hearts recognize each other as a piece of themselves, you’re lovers.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“The investment in what you build together: a home, children, a family, a place in society. The fear of losing that is what tides a marriage through life’s storms. Not love.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“We’re all eating each other’s food on this earth, child. Never feel guilty to eat when you’re hungry. Just remember to feed the hungry when you can.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“When will people stop using lust to devalue love?”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“The feelings of guilt and anger don’t go away as I take a rickshaw to the mall, but the feeling of rightness does return. The act of growing a spine hurts, but it doesn’t seem reversible.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“There’s always been something about you, Mira. It came back to me, and it soothed me. You calm the restlessness inside me. You feel like an answer to questions I don’t even know I have.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“Money is easy to repay. A life and a million acts of nurturing and kindness aren’t.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“He’s developed feelings for me, which, given the circumstances, is natural. Every time I take a patient’s chronic pain away, they get emotionally attached to me. That’s how humans work. People meet for a reason.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“I don’t know why people associate that word with the physical. If you’re in love, if your hearts recognize each other as a piece of themselves, you’re lovers. When will people stop using lust to devalue love?”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“We’re all eating each other’s food on this earth, child. Never feel guilty to eat when you’re hungry. Just remember to feed the hungry when you can. Now tell me everything.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“when Druv asked which of the two cities I prefer, I had to give it some thought. I don’t think it’s about the cities so much as who I am in each of them.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“The only thing I’ve ever wanted was happiness for your brother and you,” she says. “But I know how fragile happiness is.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“The chasm between how they grew up and the world in which they raised us isn’t an easy one to cross.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“My mother’s guiding force is the fear of tempting the fates. In her mind, all good fortune is precariously balanced on the knife-edge of bad fortune and under constant threat from the evil eye of those who want what you have.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“The thing about pain management is that treatments work better when the person in pain is the one doing the work to make it stop. This usually involves walking right into your pain to get to the other side.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“He touches my face, and I pull my arms away. A sick sensation wobbles in the pit of my stomach. I usually avoid children. I’m not a fan of their smell, or the grime that sticks around their noses, or their fragility.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“We won’t take jewels and land to our grave, but our souls will carry the choices we made and how we lived to the next life.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“Are you truly silly if you know you’re silly?”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“When you’re true to yourself, even when something hurts, it feels good. When you’re betraying yourself, even when something is supposed to feel good, it hurts.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“We won't take jewels and land to our grave, but our souls will carry the choices we made and how we lived to the next life.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“We're all eating each other's food on this earth, child. Never feel guilty to eat when you're hungry. Just remember to feed the hungry when you can.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“Society has given them permission to be dicks as long as their evil is focused on those who can’t protect themselves.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“You can’t judge your courage in a different world based on the world you’re in right now.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“All my life I had this need to come first for you. Now I would gladly be standing all the way at the end of your priorities if only I could see you one more time.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“Actually, no, Druv. I don’t. This is not about being liberal or not being liberal. This isn’t about Romona Auntie being okay with Saket. This is about you thinking that being okay with Saket is a choice you get to make, let alone something you have to do for me. This is about the fact that we’re even having a conversation that reduces real human beings to an issue you’re compromising on.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“It is hard to do the thing you want when you’ve been taught that doing what others want means loving them. But you came here to find me. You do know how to do what you want.” She places her hand over my chest, where my heart hurts. Her hand is cool, but heat gathers beneath my skin under her touch. “When you’re true to yourself, even when something hurts, it feels good. When you’re betraying yourself, even when something is supposed to feel good, it hurts.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira

“I’m going to New York! Anticipation races up my spine. Druv loves New York. He finds it preposterous that I’ve never been, and wants to fix that ASAP. Or as soon as his surgical schedule opens up, which he’s assured me it has next week.”
― Sonali Dev, There's Something About Mira