Top 400 Roshani Chokshi Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “I loved the feeling of discovery, of not knowing how much I wanted something until I had discovered its absence.”

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202. “Where’s the cake?”

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

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

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205. “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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206. “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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207. “One can’t exactly savor vengeance when one is dead.”

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208. “I think the greatest power is belief, for what is a god without it?”

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

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

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212. “Heroes always made do.”

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

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214. “Guilt is what makes you accountable.”

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

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216. “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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217. “Memories are the grandest illusion of all.”

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218. “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.”

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219. “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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220. “Night coaxed out the stars, my jailers.”

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221. “Love looked different to everyone.”

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222. “The only rules to follow were instincts and color palettes.”

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223. “I will not let us be beings of regret. I know my past. What I want is my future.”

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224. “I’ve always loved tales of broken lovers who roam through countrysides singing their stories of woe and separation, their honey- sweet longing for the next life when they can suddenly be re united. It makes other people happy, you see. It makes people grateful that it hasn’t happened to them.”

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225. “The pollution that accumulates upon my surface has no bearing on my soul.” Aru nodded to herself. Nice one. Maybe she’d use that excuse next time she didn’t feel like showering.”

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226. “As if he had once known how to fly, but the skies had shaken him loose.”

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227. “It’s only those that deserve nothing that want everything.”

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228. “You are the Daughter of Death,” hissed Aru. “You don’t walk into a telephone pole because of a boy.”

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229. “He didn’t understand that sometimes the only way to take down what had destroyed you was to disguise yourself as part of it.”

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230. “If you fight with poison in your heart, you will lose sight of what it is you are fighting for.”

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231. “As he walked out the door of his study, a phantom ache curled between his shoulder blades. As if they craved the weight of wings.”

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232. “Imagine having to live in a place like this,” she said through chattering teeth. “You’d have to pick your nose all the time just so that your boogers wouldn’t freeze into icicles and stab the inside of your nose.”

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233. “Ah, time. The best cosmic joke in the universe.”

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234. “Now that they’d stopped running, Aru realized she was still holding the silver fruit. It was cold in her hands. Curious, she raised it to her face and inhaled deeply. Aru had never smelled a fruit like this... It didn’t give off a scent as much as a feeling. It felt like a moment on the verge of passing. Hot cocoa on the brink of turning cold. The end of a good book. The prickling sense of waking up that always cuts a good nap short. It made her happy and sad all at once. She lost herself in it.”

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235. “You can tell a lot about a person from the way they occupied space.”

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236. “He loved her. And she loved him. And in such bliss does devastation grow.”

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237. “Punctuality, with its unseemly whiff of eagerness, was for peasants.”

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238. “Enrique had brought her a cookie and made her laugh, and it felt like sitting beside a fire in one’s own home, knowing exactly where everything was and who would come to the door.”

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239. “That was a lie. Of course I remembered. The memory pounced on me the moment I fell asleep. Fire painted my bones when I kissed him. In the back of my head, I’d felt the kind of drowsy hunger that lit up my thoughts when I first ate demon fruit. For more and less. For something impossible.”

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240. “Love is like Death without the guarantee of its arrival. Love may not come for you, but when it does it will be just as swift and ruthless as Death and just as blind to your protestations. And just as Death will end one life and leave you with another, so will Love.”

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241. “Was this what being an older sister was like? Wanting to yell at someone most of the time but still be willing to jump in front of a car for them? If so, it was awful.”

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242. “The sage smiled. Sometimes a smile was little more than a sliver of teeth. And sometimes a smile was a knife cutting the world in two: before and after.”

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243. “Swords could also be used for freeing. You could’ve cut through the chain around the bird’s foot and set it free. Swords could be used for killing. But it needn’t be the bird. Wouldn’t the more merciful choice have been to use the sword against the oppressor?”

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244. “Vikram’s eyes widened. “What’s this? Praise from Her Beastliness in the morning? Are you under a curse that makes you friendly before noon? If so, how do we make it permanent?”

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245. “I never glanced at the moon for the next week. I knew, buried beneath my happiness, that it was temporary and that sooner or later I would have to pull Vikram’s thread, but I ignored it. I was too lost in the magic of Akaran and Amar.”

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246. “Find the one who glows, with blood on the lips and fangs in the heart.”

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247. “There is more than one kind of darkness, and none is darker than doubt, for the light required to illuminate it belongs not to a jewel or a flame, but your very soul.”

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248. “Welcome to the Night Bazaar,” he said. “On behalf of the gods and storytellers around the world, we hope you leave with your life intact and your imagination brimming.”

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249. “Next, a six-foot-tall revolving rack of personalized keychains shot out of the ground less than a foot away from Aru. She glared at it. “I’ve been wronged by you before,” she muttered. “Who are you talking to, Shah?” asked Aiden. “No one,” said Aru quickly.”

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250. “In my experience, big words ornament bad news.”

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