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“You're already breaking your promise. A promise isn't what you say. It's what you do.”
― Sonali Dev, Incense and Sensibility

“I get to help you too. You need to accept help too. Not just give it. You tell me I need to control everything, but by never letting yourself need anyone, you're controlling everything too.”
― Sonali Dev, Incense and Sensibility

“How were you naive enough to think you and Yash had a chance?" Naina said.
"Because truth has to..."
"... count for something," Yash and India said together.
India spun toward him. And there it was, the endless peace of her gaze. Breath whooshed out of him, weight lifted off his shoulders.
"Because love has to count for something." He took a step closer, and her body sagged, mirroring all the relief he was feeling. "I breathe differently when she's around. I feel... I feel alive in ways I never have.”
― Sonali Dev, Incense and Sensibility

“I believe that to truly heal you have to treat the whole individual. Yoga is one part of that."
"What's the other part?"
"Understanding yourself as a human being."
"You mean therapy."
"I mean digging into your emotions. Understanding yourself, who you are, how you function. Taking yourself apart like a machine and finding the rusty parts and oiling them.”
― Sonali Dev, Incense and Sensibility

“Even the enormity of what had happened in this gazebo with India had been no match for his focus, because twenty-four hours did not define you.
An hour with her just redefined you.”
― Sonali Dev, Incense and Sensibility

“What about the election?"
"What about it? I did my part, now I just have to trust the universe to do the rest." He wiped her tears.
"What if you lose?" she asked.
He tucked her hair behind her ear. "I've already won. Because I have you.”
― Sonali Dev, Incense and Sensibility

“He hadn't said a word, but his presence was a hum in the air. Exactly like the breathing of a sleeping dragon in a fairy tale.”
― Sonali Dev, Incense and Sensibility

“As kids we loved to swing by the hanging roots. Yash liked to pretend he was Tarzan."
"Tarzan grew up to wear a suit”
― Sonali Dev, Incense and Sensibility

“Yash had carried a lantern when he'd brought her here the night before Nisha's wedding. A camping lantern with the kind of white light that mirrored the moonlight and picked out the glitter in their clothes. It had turned the sequins on her ghaghra into a million stars that merged seamlessly with the silver threaded through his kurta, the endless universe of possibility inside them reflected around them.”
― Sonali Dev, Incense and Sensibility