The Bollywood Bride Quotes

“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

“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 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

“You want to be friends? he'd asked her. And her life had changed.”
― 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

“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 strangest things in life were precious. Someone to tell you when you were wrong was one of them. “I”
― 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

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

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

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

“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

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

“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

“Yoga made her mind race all over the place instead of centering it, which made all that breathing and stretching pointless.”
― Sonali Dev, The Bollywood Bride

“In her year without words, a well-meaning art teacher had given her a brush and paints. And for one precious hour, it had set her free.”
― Sonali Dev, The Bollywood Bride

“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, The Bollywood Bride

“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, The Bollywood Bride

“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

“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, The Bollywood Bride

“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, The Bollywood Bride