Top 400 Roshani Chokshi Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “All war is philosophical. That’s why we call it war. Strip it of its paint and it’s nothing more than murder.”

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102. “Fear was a reminder that even the insubstantial could kill. But insubstantial meant it had no shape. It couldn’t be conquered or tamed or avoided. Only moved through, with force and will.”

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103. “But what no one tells you is that even when you decide which world you will live in, the world may not always see you as you would wish. Sometimes it demands that you be so outrageous as to transcend your very skin. You can change your name. Your eye colour. Make yourself a myth and live within it, so that you belong to no one but yourself.”

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104. “Preservation is an innocent desire.”

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105. “Believe that our destinies aren’t chains around our necks, but wings that give us flight.”

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106. “Maybe that’s why the best laughs tend to break free on the edge of lightless horror. Only then can they gives wings to a drooping spirit.”

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107. “Secrets are curious things. They are flimsy and easily broken. For this reason, they prefer to remain hidden.”

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108. “It wasn’t right to honor the dead with inaction.”

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109. “But worry for a friend can make ordinary circumstances extraordinary.”

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110. “I want your perspective and honesty,” he said, before adding in a softer voice, “I want to be humbled by you.”

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111. “Sometimes she wondered if grief could break someone, for all of them bore fractures, new hollows.”

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112. “She winked. “Trust in cake.”

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113. “Lust was one thing, but what she’d felt that night was a pull... the kind that keeps stars from falling out of the night sky. It was vast. It was unlike what she’d imagined.”

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114. “His smile was disjointed, like he was out of practice.”

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115. “Superstitons are useless. And a gut cannot have an instinct.”

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116. “My joy was ghostly, like something not quite realized.”

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117. “I love you,” he murmured into my hair. “You are my night and stars, the fate I would fix myself to in any life.”

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118. “They may have covered their lips with silk, but their words were unseathed daggers.”

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119. “This was the same hair that Amar had cut a length of and wrapped a bracelet from its strands, slid it onto his wrist and proclaimed it the finest piece of jewelry he had known.”

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120. “Wait. I was bait?” demanded Enrique. “You’re flattered.”

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121. “Laila’s desserts, though absent of Forging, were like edible magic. Her cakes took the shape of ballerinas with outstretched arms – their hair spun sugar and edible gold, their skin pale as cream and strewn with sweet pearl dust.”

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122. “And the truth was that he was not afraid of being seen for what he was. He was afraid of being seen as someone who could never be more.”

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123. “I hadn’t known until now, but I saw it, felt it. I came here for her. Because it didn’t matter whether I had lived in another realm for years that I thought were mere days. It didn’t matter that I had tasted fairy fruit, fallen in love and broken a heart. Some bonds were impervious to all manner of experience. And the truth was that, no matter what happened, we were sisters.”

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124. “It is when we stop listening, that we commit the greatest wrongs.”

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125. “This was the court of Bharata, a city like a bone spur – tacked on like an afterthought. Its demons were different: harem wives with jewels in their hair hair and hate in their heart, courtiers with mouths full of lies, a father who knew me only as a colored stone around his neck. Those were the monsters I knew. My world didn’t have room for more.”

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126. “Relief is when you want something to stop.”

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127. “He had spent hours listening to how the pull of certain people would supposedly make the world stop. Now he knew it was wrong. The word hadn’t stopped. The world had just started to churn and breathe and live.”

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128. “Her mother had often reminded her that pigeons were “rats with wings.”

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129. “Her kiss burned in his bones. And maybe it was the magic of Alaka or maybe his mind was splintering from every thing they’d gone through, but he would have sworn she tasted like cold honey and caught magic.”

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130. “A memory is a fine legacy to leave behind.”

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131. “She’d never been thanked, let alone HUGGED, after telling a lie. But maybe she hadn’t lied at all. Maybe it wasn’t lying as much as it was applying some imagination. Looking at something from a different angle. That wasn’t such a bad thing.”

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132. “Beside him, the world was a soft, pulsing and bright thing, alive with hidden angles that we could uncover one by one. It was more than magic. It was life turned relentless and astral. And I reveled in it.”

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133. “People enjoy seeing other people feel bad. It makes them feel better about themselves.”

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134. “The best motivation is love,” I offered. Beside me, Kamala nodded vigorously. “And food!”

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135. “Kisses were not supposed to be like this. Kisses were to be witnessed by stars, not held in the presence of stale death. But as the bones rose around them, Laila saw fractals of white. They looked like pale constellations, and she thought that, perhaps, for a kiss like this, even hell would put forth stars.”

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136. “There’s always impossibilities in dreams. Dream more.”

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137. “How many years had he spent believing that he was meant for more? Sometimes he thought his head was a snarl of myth and folktales, where magic coaxed ignored princes out of the shadows and gave them a crown and a legend to live in. He used to wait for the moment when magic would drape a new world over his eyes. But time turned his hopes dull and lightless.”

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138. “Says who? Nothing wrong with a little bit of viciousness. Would you rather be a dove or a Dragon?”

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139. “There were so many wants inside him that he doubted there was room for blood in his body.”

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140. “Enrique, who has always dreamed about what magic might feel like, thought he had found it then: myths and palimpsests, starlight sugaring the air, and the way hope feels painful when shared equally among friends.”

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141. “Actions have a better voice than words.”

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142. “I loved him with the force of a thousand lifetimes, made greater by the fact that my love was returned.”

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143. “Why should I say thank you?” asked Mini. “I knew you could do it.”

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144. “The Prince was staring at me strangely. No man had looked at me that way. Men had looked at me in admiration, in fear, in lust. They’d looked at me with disbelief at who I was. He looked at me with disbelief at who I could be.”

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145. “Sometimes a weakness felt like a blade turned inward, but that meant it was sharp enough that when turned around, it could be a weapon. You just had to be willing to face it and adjust your grip. And that made it magic far more powerful than any celestial weapon.”

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146. “The moment he touched me, my universe constricted to the space between our lips. We were a snarl of limbs and bright-burning kisses.”

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147. “One house fell. And another house’s line died without an heir. Now all that is left is a secret.”

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148. “Do not waste your life mourning the dead.”

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149. “There were so many things I wanted to do!” moaned Mini. “I never even got to shave my legs.”

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150. “Who said it was a path? It could have just been artfully strewn cookies. You made it a path by following it, and assuming it had any intention.”

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