Top 400 Roshani Chokshi Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Guilt is what makes you accountable.”

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

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

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206. “Heroes always made do.”

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

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

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

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

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

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214. “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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215. “Night coaxed out the stars, my jailers.”

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

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

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

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220. “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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221. “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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222. “When I looked up, I could imagine an existence as vast as the sky. Just as infinite. Just as unknown.”

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223. “In Bharata, I guarded myself. Weakness was a privilege. It divided you, snipped out your secrets and gave every sliver power over you. I didn’t have parts to spare. Bharata called me their Jewel, and maybe I was like one. Not sparkling or precious. But a cold thing wearing a hundred faces. Like facets on a gem. One for every person.”

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224. “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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225. “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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226. “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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227. “Punctuality, with its unseemly whiff of eagerness, was for peasants.”

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

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229. “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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230. “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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231. “In my experience, big words ornament bad news.”

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232. “But for the first time, I wanted to believe in the things that outlasted us: the stories that came to life in a child’s head, the fear of the dark, the hunger to live. Those were the footsteps that not even Time could discover and erase, because they lived far out of reach, in the song of blood coursing through veins and in the quiet threads that made up dreams. I wanted to hold the hope of those tales within me and follow it like a lure all the way back to myself.”

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233. “How many times have answers been so simple and yet someone is determined to take the path of thorns instead of roses?” “It’s not earned.” “That’s a very human thing to say.” “An inclination I can’t help.” “It’s not about things that are earned, but just things as they are.”

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234. “You see, a truth parted with has its own way of becoming a tale. It is told so often that it stumbles in the telling, little bits flaking off, little bits sticking on, and the years accrete and they tend to warp the truth, press it into something it was not at the beginning – not a lie, but a tale. It’s easier to see the truth when you disguise it.”

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235. “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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236. “Sometimes we women are our own worst traps. Our hopes snatch us like quicksand. Our loneliness forges a cage. Sometimes all it takes is one sweet glance and kind word to make us forget ourselves.”

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237. “Nightmares are part of sleeping.”

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238. “Enough tiny sharp jabs can cut as deeply as any knife.”

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239. “His smile banished my loneliness and limbed the hollows of my anema with starlight, pure and bright... his touch hummed in my bones like an aria – a song to my dance, a beginning of a promise.”

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240. “I could have been verse made flesh or compressed moonlight. Anything other than who I was now.”

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241. “I reached out to hold a daydream. They looked like they were spun from glass and yet their touch was silk-soft. As they drifted between my fingers, I felt them – a nap in the sleepy sunshine of a winter afternoon, a reverie where a sea alight with flowers and bright candles washed over my ankles.”

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242. “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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243. “Love looked different to everyone.”

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244. “It is nice to be nice,” said Kamala with a sage nod. “And it is also nice to eat people.”

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245. “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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246. “What I wanted was a connection, a shared heatbeat that kept rhythm across oceans and worlds.”

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

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248. “I am not interested in recollections of the past,” said Vikram, holding my gaze. “I have a future now. There’s nothing sweeter than that.”

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249. “Just be your own favorite person and then no one else’s opinion really matters.”

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250. “In the end, I did whatever I could to stave off her nightmares.”

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