Top 400 Roshani Chokshi Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “All right, Potatoes,” said Aru, “time to make like a banana and – ” Aiden’s face darkened. “Aru, don’t you dare – ” “SPLIT!” cackled Aru.”

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302. “Enrique saw him first and immediately pointed at Zofia. “Zofia just tried to set fire to the Tezcat spectacles.” Zofia scowled at him. “I tried to see if the lens and the spectacles might be welded together.”

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303. “There is always a peculiar distance to fairy tales. They are denuded of urgency, rinsed of true horror even as the words relish in gore. Love is presented to us as something that must be as vast as a horizon and just as unreachable.”

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304. “Aru was waiting for magic. And every day she was disappointed.”

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305. “Aiden managed a weak nod, dropping his arm from around Rudy’s shoulder. “Thanks,” he mumbled. “You’re my lead singer,” said Rudy proudly. “Nothing is happening to you.” “I’m also your cousin!”

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306. “Hypnos deflated. “That tells us nothing.” “We also know that Roux-Joubert wears a honeybee pin,” said Enrique. “So? Today I’m wearing underwear. It’s hardly monumental.” Zofia frowned. “Why did you specify today –.”

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307. “The things that scare us can also give us joy. We just have to learn how to see them in a different light.”

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308. “Just because something is not fair does not mean it is without reason or even compassion.”

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309. “For a long time, I’ve been waiting for judgment. For some god to hurl a lightning bolt at me or strike me dead. I wonder now if I’ve been looking for gods in all the wrong places. There is a bruised recognition in his gaze and that – this singular truth that I am not alone – expands the universe in a way that faith never has.”

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310. “No words in any language can pin down exactly how life and death function.”

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311. “The artwork made him feel small, but gloriously so, as if he were part of something greater than himself.”

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312. “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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313. “Laila threw it in his face. “Haven’t you had enough? You’ve already given me a watch, a briefcase, two teacups, and asked me to touch the couch, which I am still recovering from.” She feigned a shudder. “At least Zofia spared me.” Zofia shrugged. “An object’s personal context does not affect its utility.” “Not true!” Enrique had said. “It could be proof of something. Laila, you’re practically a goddess.” Laila sipped her tea, assuming an expression Enrique had come to recognize as “smug cat.”

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314. “Once a story stops being told. it dies. Unless people find pieces of it later, polish them up, and breathe new life into them.”

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315. “In your hands lie the gates of godhood. Let none pass.”

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316. “Fiduciam in domum.”

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317. “If you seek revenge, you should dig two graves.”

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318. “Death had some claim everywhere. Death was in the wind coaxing a flower to blossom. Death hid in the wing of the bird folding itself to sleep.”

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319. “Brynne Tvarika Lakshmi Balamuralikrishna Rao had always been strong. Like, so strong that even her shadow bristled with muscles and other shadows would wither away in its presence.”

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320. “You’re a lot braver than most of the people outside,” said Enrique. “None of them could build a bomb with their eyes closed and wander into a metal monster and still want to name it ‘David.’ Trust in yourself, Phoenix.”

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321. “Go with my blessings, Pandavas,” said the god of fire. “But before you do, let me offer one last piece of wisdom. 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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322. “The pollution that accumulates upon my surface has no bearing on my soul.”

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323. “Every fairy tale has blood flecked on its muzzle. Sometimes it’s licked up in the second before the story begins – a queen slowly bleeding out onto her birthing bed, a plague having laid waste to a land before “Once upon a time” slouches from the dark. But every so often, one can trace the thick flow of blood as it seeps from the pages.”

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324. “We’ve got hope, a flimsy plan, and a great deal of explosives. We’ve gotten by on less. Let’s go.”

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325. “At its heart, a dream is a door. Sometimes there is nothing behind the door, only the stacked faces of strangers. Sometimes the door holds row upon row of indignities plucked and preserved like fruit out of season. And sometimes the door is a piece of yourself that has been exiled and severed for reasons you have been made to forget, and it is only in dream that it dares to show itself.”

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326. “Fights between good friends are a bit like lightning: a flash of anger and then it’s fine.”

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327. “Scars sculpted people into who they where.”

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328. “But she saw something in me. Something that turned her kiss into a knife that cut me free from the dark.”

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329. “He was holding the Bible. Instinctively, she leaned away.”

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330. “Sorry we couldn’t do this sooner, but, you know, I’ve got a lot of jobs to juggle.” He winked in the mirror. “Anyway, you’ll learn this on your own, but it’s worth telling you. Life is a heck of a battlefield, but I gotta say, the scenery is totally worth it.”

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331. “I’m just going to do my best! That’s all I got! I don’t know what to do. I don’t know if I’m going to make a mistake or if everyone’s going to hate me. I don’t know if it’s going to work. And I don’t even know if it will matter in the end... but I have to try.”

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332. “I wish my love was more beautiful.”

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333. “Our illusions weave roses around us, and when we try to escape, we are met with thorns.”

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334. “Happiness destroyed only begets more destruction.”

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335. “He smiled. A true smile. I knew his smirks. His half-grins. Even halfhearted and lopsided upturns of his mouth. This smile was different. It was soft and unguarded. And it softened me in return. I had put that smile on his face and I felt strangely territorial about it. I wanted to keep it.”

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336. “Enrique didn’t want a forced love. He wanted a love like a light, a presence that drove out the shadows and recast the world into something warm.”

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337. “You can picture it, can’t you? The moment when time caught to us, the slant of light in which the familiar turned strange.”

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338. “And then Enrique hooked his thumbs together and made a strange waving motion with his hands. “You’re a bird?” “A moth!” said Enrique. “A moth approaching a flame!” “That’s a very alarming moth.”

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339. “I have no idea what that means but it sounds both sinister and old fashioned. Hypnos.”

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340. “Anger makes one blind to happiness.”

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341. “One whiff and Aru saw corpses hanging from trees and a greedy, lengthening shadow.”

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342. “Hypnos bent down and kissed him.”

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343. “What is fair and what is just do not always look the same.”

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344. “Brynne was changing, too. Her eyes looked ocean-tinted. In a matter of seconds, she blurred through a dozen menacing shapes – a growling panther, an azure bear, a sharp-clawed wolverine, and even a massive saltwater crocodile. Crocodile-Brynne snapped, and a cold wind blew around them. “Uh, what’s going on with you guys?” asked Aiden. “Is it puberty?” whispered Rudy nervously. Aiden swatted him.”

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345. “We’re in Tennessee,” said Brynne.”

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346. “But I was a full tale, complete unto myself for better or for worse.”

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347. “Well, there’s always this.” Hypnos bent down and kissed him.”

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348. “I don’t think you’re lost. You’re just searching for the thing that fills you with light.”

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349. “Aiden patted his back. “There, there, rich prince. I’m sorry there’s other rich people in the world.” Rudy sniffed. “It’s really hard.”

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350. “When someone chose to see you only as small and weak, it made them careless. Careless enough not to notice when a small and weak thing crept past all their expectations and laid a trap they didn’t expect.”

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