Top 400 Roshani Chokshi Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Our souls can easily turn rancid when bitterness and ugly words are left to fester in our hearts, making us act in ways both foolish and tragic.”

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302. “Indigo’s face was soft, unlined, but when she lifted her gaze, her eyes seemed ancient. This was how I knew that grief had marked her. Only grief can make time change its tempo like that, expand seconds to centuries, with only our eyes marking the distance crossed.”

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303. “We are more than the things we fight with.”

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304. “Remember, in one light something may seem monstrous, and in another it is perhaps not so terrible after all.”

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305. “She didn’t shiver as she walked. If anything, she seemed to luxuriate in the cold, as if it ran through her blood.”

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306. “Not again,” groaned Hypnos. “It’s nothing but a symbol – ” Laila hissed in her breath. She could practically see Enrique brandishing a sword. “Nothing but a symbol?” repeated Enrique quietly. “People die for symbols. People have hope because of symbols. They’re not just lines. They’re histories, cultures, traditions, given shape.” Hypnos blushed and plucked at his vest.”

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307. “If you think what we are doing is impossible, then let us rewrite what possibility means. Together.”

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308. “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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309. “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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310. “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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311. “Aru was waiting for magic. And every day she was disappointed.”

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312. “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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313. “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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314. “Just because something is not fair does not mean it is without reason or even compassion.”

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315. “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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316. “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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317. “No words in any language can pin down exactly how life and death function.”

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

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319. “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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320. “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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321. “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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322. “In your hands lie the gates of godhood. Let none pass.”

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323. “Fiduciam in domum.”

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324. “May your journey be bright but not blinding.”

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325. “Turning into ghosts is not what the dead deserve.”

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326. “When she ached, I wept. When I had nightmares, it was Indigo who screamed for me.”

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327. “But it was real life, and real life doesn’t always sound like it should.”

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328. “I was left with everything and nothing. I was free and forever trapped. I was a multitude of blues.”

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329. “Most myths are just truths covered in cobwebs.”

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330. “True, but it never hurts to understand a place a little better. That’s why words are so important. They’re like a soul and a story all in one.”

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331. “A particularly good book had a way of opening new spaces in one’s mind.”

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332. “What we know of the world are blips and fragments. The only people who can truly speak of history are ghosts.”

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333. “The magician smiled and swept a bow. “I am called Uttanka,” he said in a rich, deep voice. “Will you hear my tale?”

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334. “She was a phantasm to me, proof of the impossible and thus a talisman against the absence that had haunted my adult life.”

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335. “Cowardice is running from the difficult choices made by the ones that love you most.”

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336. “The patriarch had grabbed the girls too dark to be visible in the world’s eyes; whose languages fell on deaf ears; whose very homes at the edge of society pushed them too far into the shadows for notice.”

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337. “Zofia ignored them. She had no interest in listening to two boys compare their sticks.”

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338. “When she got to the end of the hall, Zofia stopped short. Enrique and Hypnos had not moved from their spot. Their eyes were locked on each other, heads bent low in conversation and then – just as suddenly – not in conversation.”

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339. “But be warned: regret will always follow. It is the price of aiming true. For sometimes, when we take the deadliest aim, we are nothing if not reckless.”

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340. “Question the very assumptions.”

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341. “Until now, the Pandavas have always appeared as fully grown people, not squished bundles of hormones and incompetence.”

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342. “I,” said Hypnos, clearly bored, “am a human.”

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343. “How am I supposed to stop the Sleeper from getting to the Lord of Destruction if I can’t throw a bow and arrow?” “You shoot a bow and arrow!”

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344. “I know you’re clever, but do you really think you’re going to outsmart the ocean?”

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

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

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

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349. “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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350. “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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