Home > Work > A Distant Heart (Bollywood, #4)
1 " He will be okay. Keep courage.Courage.That's what they kept calling it.This thing they wanted him to keep.But how did you keep something you did not own? Did not know? Could not find in the hungry panic inside you? "
― Sonali Dev , A Distant Heart (Bollywood, #4)
2 " Courage wasn't only fighting your circumstances; sometimes making peace with your circumstances required more courage. "
3 " 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. "
4 " I wish there was a word for what you're doing. I wish there was a word for being blind to someone's situation because you think you know how it feels and you use some tiny part of your own experience and extrapolate it to theirs without realizing that you have a choice and that they have none. "
5 " Sometimes the people you loved didn't know what was best for them and you had to be their good sense. "
6 " 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. "
7 " Time. The starkest truth of life – either you didn't have enough or then it went on and on. "
8 " 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. "
9 " I want you to love me for me, for now, for as much time as we have. I swear I'll do all I can to take care of myself. I already do. But that's it. If that's enough, I'm yours. If you can only love me if you have a guarantee that I'll be around forever, then find someone else to be terrified of losing and let me go. "
10 " 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. "
11 " Love, friendship -- with her it had never been two different things. Him and her -- they had never been different either. If they had, all the destruction around them would have separated them. But it hadn't. "
12 " What is more than being friends? "
13 " She felt something then, something she had only ever felt with Rahul. It had taken her all these years to be able to name it. It was trust. For whatever reason, she had never once in her life doubted that she would get what she needed from him. Not always what she wanted, but what she really needed. "
14 " Wealth comes and goes, Rahul. Coming from adversity and overcoming it makes you better not worse than those who never have to. "
15 " 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? "
