Top 400 Roshani Chokshi Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Do not waste your life mourning the dead.”

— Roshani Chokshi

152. “There was always an observation at the root of a superstition.”

— Roshani Chokshi

153. “For sometimes, when we take the deadliest aim, we are nothing if not reckless.”

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154. “There was more she wanted to say. He could feel the words scrabbling at the clasps of her thoughts, eager to be known. Freed. But she stood there, stony- faced and impassive. And he remembered the girl he had glimpsed from the Grotto – the one who let her shoulders drop when no one looked, the one who fought every day when no one noticed. The one who had once hoped that the Night Bazaar traded on dreams. She deserved more than loneliness.”

— Roshani Chokshi

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

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156. “Even now, even bruised, he looked like a king.”

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157. “A story. This was the key to immortality. The things that made kings quiver and deities distrustful: Nothing but a tale.”

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158. “Beauty, coveted though it was, could not outlive you. Only actions would.”

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159. “The callousness that had saved me so often had destroyed me too.”

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160. “Ah, desire. Such a poisonous thing.”

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161. “Aristocracy is just a fancy word for thievery.”

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162. “Betrayal felt bitter and acrid in my throat, and the ghost of it was everywhere, taunting my reflection. How could he do this to me? How could he doubt me so much to expose me to the ridicule and glances of the celestial world? All this time, Amar said nothing. Our bed became a cold thing and my heart froze with it.”

— Roshani Chokshi

163. “There is no romance in real grief. Only longing and fury.”

— Roshani Chokshi

164. “Everything about him had been so carefully put together. But it didn’t matter how well ones clothes fit if they skin didn’t.”

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165. “When we revise the horror and sanitize the grotesque, we risk erasing the paths that led us here.”

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166. “Memory is a riddled thing. I would caution you from making promises you cannot keep.”

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

— Roshani Chokshi

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

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169. “They said I would never remember how strong and powerful I am until someone reminded me,” said Hanuman. “Sometimes I wonder if it is a curse that we are all under at some point or another.”

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170. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

171. “Don’t capture their hearts. Steal their imagination.”

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

— Roshani Chokshi

173. “Who are you?” Aru grinned. This was the moment she had been waiting for all her life. In school, the teachers always asked instead: What’s you name? Now, finally, she could say her dream response to Who are you? “Your worst nightmare,” she said in a deep Batman voice.”

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174. “You warned me that knowing your secret would destroy us. At first, it sat in our marriage like a blue- lipped ghost, hardly noticeable until a trick of the light drew it into focus. But you could always tell the days when it gnawed at my thoughts. You tried to comfort me. You stroked my face and curled my fingers to your heart. You said: “If you pry, you’ll destroy our marriage.” But oh, my love, you lied.”

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175. “All through the night, he smiled daggers into my heart.”

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176. “Instinctively, I shoved Vikram behind me and brought out the dagger.”

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177. “Perhaps Choices spring up when history makes way for them. Perhaps they will grow, like legends upon dead conquerors.”

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178. “Fairness is but an idea conceived by someone who has the power to make such pronouncements.”

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179. “What was magic anyway, but the world beheld by someone who chose to see it differently?”

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180. “Father once said the real language of diplomacy was in the space between words.”

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181. “Soon, only the ground will know my secrets.”

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182. “Great minds think alike.” Zofia frowned. “No, they don’t. Otherwise every idea would be uniform.”

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183. “I loved the feeling of discovery, of not knowing how much I wanted something until I had discovered its absence.”

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184. “Scars sculpted people into who they were. They were scuffs left by sorrow’s fists, and to him, at least, proof of being thoroughly human.”

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185. “If you are furious, let it be fuel.”

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186. “Death is like a parking lot. You stay there for just a bit and then go somewhere else.”

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187. “All this time, he thought magic had chosen him. Maybe magic never chose. Maybe it had always been about the fit. A key latching into a hole. Maybe there had been just enough holes in him for magic to slip through and hook him like spurs into cloth.”

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188. “It is foolish to cling to ghosts or spent bones. It is better to forge ahead.”

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189. “I didn’t revel in death, but I didn’t hate it either. Death had raised me, like an older sibling. Amidst death, I had found my bearings as a soldier. Surrounded by death, I had found my place as a leader.”

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190. “Stories, knowledge... they set the mind alight.”

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191. “Someone once told me that just because you can’t have the life you wanted, you shouldn’t give up and fade out of existence. That’s how we become living ghosts – by never moving on.”

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192. “This is what we get for thinking that scaley orange skin and fake hair could keep that former demon out of elected office.”

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193. “Hypnos was beautiful at a distance. Up close, he was just plain staggering.”

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194. “I know emptiness. I know the taste of blood against my teeth. I know what it is to fill your belly with iron. I know hunger. I know pain. I know memories that won’t stay. I know the ghost of life and the perfume of souls.”

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195. “I am a nightmare to most, and a dream for the broken; who am I?’ and the answer to that is death.” “Correct.”

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196. “One can’t exactly savor vengeance when one is dead.”

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197. “Heroes always made do.”

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198. “I couldn’t decide whether I thought reincarnation was a scare tactic or a hopeful message.”

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199. “He wished he didn’t know what he had lost. Maybe then every day wouldn’t feel like this. As if he had once known how to fly, but the skies had shaken him loose and left him with nothing but the memory of wings.”

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200. “This was no heaven, but it was the hell that I knew, and I preferred it far more than whatever beast of a country awaited me.”

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