Top 400 Roshani Chokshi Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “He swiftly made his way to the exit, leaving Enrique to ponder what, exactly, just happened. Self-consciously, he reached up and touched his hair. It was nice, he had to admit.”

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302. “Some knowledge is not meant to be known.”

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303. “Hypnos snorted. “And you call me dramatic.”

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304. “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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305. “Sometimes being strong demanded the courage to be weak.”

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306. “You can wander the world and be beholden to no one, and still find yourself trapped.”

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307. “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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308. “For the longest time, she’d thought an antelope was a horned melon, the ugly cousin of a cantaloupe. Which had made the song “Home on the Range” particularly confusing, because every time she heard where the deer and the antelope play, she thought a giant melon had gained sentience and escaped from the fruit aisle of the grocery store.”

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309. “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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310. “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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311. “Answering a wrong with a wrong doesn’t make it right.”

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312. “Enrique rolled his eyes. “Most women kill to be alone with me.” “I have learned that something does not have to be animate in order to use the word ‘kill,’” said Zofia. “Like how some people say ‘kill time.’ Perhaps these women you are referencing are killing their expectations?”

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

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315. “Knowledge was coy. It liked to hide beneath the shroud of myth, place its heart in a fairy tale, as if it were a prize at the end of the quest.”

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316. “When a man cannot see a person as a person, then the devil has slipped into him and is peering out of his eyes.”

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

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318. “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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319. “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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320. “Fiduciam in domum.”

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321. “I am frightened,” he said quietly. “It is a constant state of being I have yet to make peace with.”

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

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323. “Is it such a bad thing, children, to forget?” asked a voice from somewhere in front of them. “If you never remember, you never grow old. Innocence keeps you ageless and blameless. People are rarely punished for deeds they cannot recall.”

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324. “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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325. “It is foolish to cling to ghosts or spent bones. It is better to forge ahead. It is better to leave what you do not know and make yourself anew. I have slung the ghosts of memories across my back for years and it has done me no good and earned me no victuals.′ I nodded. She was right. Souls have no shackles. They knew no nationality and swore no allegiances. Whoever I was, whoever I could be... that was a choice. And I had made mine.”

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326. “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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327. “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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328. “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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329. “Maybe for girls made of snow, love was worth the melt. But she was made of stolen bones and sleek fur, grave dirt and strange blood – her heart wasn’t even hers to give. Her soul was all she had, and no love was worth losing it.”

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330. “Anger makes one blind to happiness.”

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331. “That might drive another man insane, but I’d had more than twenty years to make peace with the lightless space between what you cannot believe is a truth and what you know must be a lie.”

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332. “For a kiss like this, even hell could put forth stars.”

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333. “Then again, the names we are born with can end up meaning so little. The names we give ourselves, well, perhaps that’s the truth of us.”

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334. “The pollution that accumulates upon my surface has no bearing on my soul.”

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

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

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338. “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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339. “Most myths are just truths covered in cobwebs.”

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

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

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343. “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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344. “Botanical Pavilion of Lost Cities?”

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345. “No magical abilities had ever revealed themselves to me no matter how much I wished for them. But I had a vast source of will. And will was an enchantment that no being could touch because I alone could wield it. That was power.”

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346. “Rein in the optimism Shah, It’s too much.”

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347. “You never forget the moment when beauty turns to horror.”

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348. “Does this make me irresistible to animate and inanimate things?” asked Hypnos. “Because that pleases me.”

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

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350. “Hypnos bent down and kissed him.”

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