A Distant Heart
Sonali Dev
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Courage wasn't only fighting your circumstances; sometimes making peace with your circumstances required more courage.”
“Time. The starkest truth of life – either you didn't have enough or then it went on and on.”
“Sometimes the people you loved didn't know what was best for them and you had to be their good sense.”
“Not that he had come anywhere near attaining her skill at managing hope. She could balance it like a juggler -- let it soar and curb it and pass it from hand to hand. She could spin hope and spin herself through it. Forget mere juggling; she was a veritable trapeze artist with this hope thing.”
“Fate wasn't destiny. Destiny was the assorted pieces of ourselves tied up in a cloth pouch that we hung on a stick and slung over our shoulder like a hobo. Fate was what we did with those pieces when we unpacked that pouch and chose which pieces we reached for and which ones we hid away.”
“You make me feel this, this thing inside that makes me me. And I think I might be addicted to that feeling. I crave it. All the time. You know how I crawled into your lap that day? ... I want to be able to do that whenever I want. It makes me whole, Rahul. It makes everything all right. Maybe just for a few moments, but when you hold me, everything falls into place, here.”
“What is more than being friends?”
“What could be more than being friends? What could be more than what it felt like to wait by the phone to hear that she was okay? More than waiting to discuss every case with her?”
“Wealth comes and goes, Rahul. Coming from adversity and overcoming it makes you better not worse than those who never have to.”
“Sometimes I don't know exactly how to navigate what I'm feeling. I don't know if what I'm feeling is real or right or how to go on around it. I feel several things about one thing and it's a vortex and I get stuck in it.”
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