Top 400 Roshani Chokshi Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Duh,” said Aru. “With great power comes great opportunity to annoy.”

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2. “Aru used to think that friends were there to share your food and keep your secrets and laugh at your jokes while you walked from one classroom to the next. Sometimes, though, the best kind of friend is the one who doesn’t say anything but just sits beside you. It’s enough.”

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3. “Nothing but a symbol? People die for symbols. People have hope because of symbols. They’re not just lines. They’re histories, cultures, traditions, given shape.”

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4. “Show me a dream unrealized. Don’t show me unchangeable paths.”

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5. “Make yourself a myth and live within it, so that you belong to no one but yourself.”

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6. “Aru Shah, wasn’t just another seventh grader slouching through middle school, but someone extraordinary... Aru was waiting for magic. And every day she was disappointed.”

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7. “I’ll never forget what burning roses look like. All those scarlet petals turning incandescent and furious. Like the last fl are of the sun before an eclipse swallows it from the sky.”

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8. “Have you never heard the saying ‘you attract more flies with honey than vinegar’?” “Why would I want to attract flies?” “Never mind.”

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9. “Sometimes light illuminates things that are better left in the dark.”

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10. “I know your soul. Everything else is just an ornament.”

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11. “History is a myth shaped by the tongues of conquerors.”

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12. “The worms do not take heed of caste and rank when they feast on our ashes,” the Raja said. “Your subjects will not remember you. They will not remember the shade of your eyes, the colors you favored, or the beauty of your wives. They will only remember your impression upon their hearts and whether you filled them with glee or grief. That is your immortality.”

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13. “Tales are slippery, her mother had often said. The truth of a story depends on who is telling it.”

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14. “Water is boring.”

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15. “Come with me and you shall be an empress with the moon for your throne and constellations to wear in your hair. Come.”

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16. “The Night Bazaar had ensnared me. I could smell its perfume on my skin – of stories and secrets, flashing teeth and slow smiles.”

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17. “They will only remember your impression upon their hearts and whether you filled them with glee or grief. That is your immortality.” With.”

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18. “No matter where we are, we’ll always share the same sky. We can always find each other in the same constellation.”

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19. “I promised you the moon for your throne and stars to wear in your hair,” said Amar, gesturing inside. “And I always keep my promises.”

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20. “Sing as though you’re summoning the heavens; silver your voice and bare your throat.”

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21. “Nothing was more beautiful than a night sky dusted with stars. Nothing was more terrible than a night sky scrawled with a thousand destinies. Night was inevitable. Like me.”

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22. “When the devil waged war in the heavens, even angels had to fall.”

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23. “All I’m saying is that no one can take your place if you make room for them. Trust yourself more than you distrust others.”

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24. “I believe that the world could be different. I believe that our destinies aren’t chains around our necks, but wings that give us flight.”

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25. “I would rip the stars from the sky if you wished it. Anything for you. But remember to trust me. Remember your promise.”

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26. “All along the walls were small terrariums, landscapes squeezed into miniature form. Tristan made them almost obsessively. When she asked him once, he told her it was because he wished the world were easier. Small enough and manageable enough to fit in the hollow of ones palm.”

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27. “Surviving isn’t just about cutting out your heart and burning every feeling into ash. Sometimes it means taking what ever is thrown at you, beautiful or grotesque, poisonous or blissful, and carving out your life with the pieces you’re given.”

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28. “My star-touched queen,” he said softly, as if he was remembering something from long ago. “I would break the world to give you what you want.”

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29. “History lessons, they said. Why did they always start with history? Show me a dream unrealized. Don’t show me unchangeable paths.”

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30. “Uh, what kinda dragon are we talking about here?” said Aru nervously. “Like Smaug sitting on all his gold, or like a cute friendly little baby Norbert hanging out in Hagrid’s cauldron?”

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31. “It was one of the things that she liked best when her mother told her the stories: villains could be heroic, and heroes could do evil.”

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32. “What was sureness and certainty? I used to hold on to certainty like a light inside me, hoping it would chase out the dark unknown. But certainty was a phantom strung together on hopes. It would lead you astray at the first chance.”

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33. “Being loud in one life allowed her to be quiet in others.”

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34. “It is not failure to fail.”

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35. “Maybe that’s why superheroes wore capes. Maybe they weren’t capes at all, but safety blankets, like the one Aru kept at the bottom of her bed and pulled up under her chin before she went to sleep. Maybe superheroes just tied their blankies around their necks so they’d have a little bit of comfort wherever they went. Because honestly? Saving the world was scary. No harm admitting that.”

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36. “Tristan, my love,” said Laila with dangerous calm. “If you get in the way of a woman’s battle, you’ll get in the way of her sword.”

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37. “Sometimes you don’t even know how special you might be. Sometimes it takes moments of horror or happiness to, if you will, unleash that knowledge.”

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38. “I was no more than a guest in my father’s home, whittling away the time until a palanquin bore me away to a different cage.”

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39. “Real life doesn’t always sound like it should.”

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40. “More than anything she wanted the world to be uncomplicated, for right and wrong to be as easily divided as the black and white sections of an Oreo. But the world was not a cookie.”

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41. “I donned my armor, lining my eyes with kohl until they were dark as death and patting crushed rose petals on my lips until they were scarlet as blood.”

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42. “I wanted a love thick with time, as inscrutable as if a lathe had carved it from night and as familiar as the marrow in my bones. I wanted the impossible, which made it that much easier to push out of my mind.”

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43. “Blood isn’t the only thing that makes you related to someone.”

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44. “Only one of the five Pandava brothers could light the lamp. Do you know where he went, human girl?” Aru lifted her chin. “I lit the lamp.” The bird stared. And then stared some more. “Well, then, we might as well let the world end.”

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45. “Secrets keep my hair lustrous.”

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46. “Dehhhhh-spaaaaa-cito! Quiero respirar tu cuello despacito!”

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47. “Nothing was invincible but change.”

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48. “Night heralded sleep and shadows, demons and dreams. But I heralded the night.”

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49. “The truth,” said Amar, taking a step closer to me, “is that you look neither lovely nor demure. You look like edges and thunderstorms. And I would not have you any other way.”

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50. “Fashion, my love, just like the universe, owes you neither explanation nor rationale.”

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