Top 400 Roshani Chokshi Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “There is no romance in real grief. Only longing and fury.”

— Roshani Chokshi

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

— Roshani Chokshi

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

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

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155. “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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156. “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

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

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

— Roshani Chokshi

159. “People are a lot like magical pockets. They’re a lot bigger on the inside than they appear to be on the outside.”

— Roshani Chokshi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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170. “With increasing darkness comes answering light,” said Boo. “Even in chaos, the world will seek balance.”

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

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

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173. “A circle is a fixed infinity. Even the way it looks when it’s held up to the light is curious, as if it’s a portal to some place of mystery and your choice to wear it means you’ve allowed your marriage to be a threshold to the unknown. And yet, even in the unknown, there is a demand of mutual trust.”

— Roshani Chokshi

174. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

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

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176. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

177. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

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

— Roshani Chokshi

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

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181. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

182. “Don’t forget that misguided intentions are often the most dangerous.”

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

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

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

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

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187. “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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188. “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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189. “It is when we stop listening, that we commit the greatest wrongs.”

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190. “Trust is won in years. Not words.”

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

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192. “Oh, Zofia,” she said. “Don’t be sad. Everyone hides.”

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193. “From inside the elephant, the bird had sounded like it could convince a mountain to turn into a volcano. Now it sounded like her math teacher that one time he had tried to perform a cappella but had stepped on a Lego piece.”

— Roshani Chokshi

194. “You once said your soul could never forget mine,” I said, sliding the mended bracelet around his wrist. “Do you remember now?”

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195. “I would be lying if I said I didn’t feel a flicker of envy. But envy did not make one lovelier. Mother Dhina had taught me that. Beauty, coveted though it was, could not outlive you. Only actions would. I never forgot that. In the harem, I might’ve disliked some girls for the ugliness in their hearts, but never for the beauty of their faces.”

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196. “The world had a tendency to trick people.”

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197. “Memories are the grandest illusion of all.”

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198. “Sometimes weakness wore the face of strength, and sometimes strength wore the face of weakness.”

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199. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

200. “Where’s the cake?”

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