Top 400 Roshani Chokshi Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “History might be shaped by the tongues of conquerors, but it was not a fixed shape or story, and with every object they repatriated, it was like adding or recasting a sentence in a book whose pages were as wide and infinite as a horizon.”

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352. “Aru knew because she’d dealt with it every day in school, that flare of not knowing where you belonged. That craving to be seen and go unnoticed at the same time.”

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353. “If you must fight someday, allow me to advise you about one thing: do not fight in anger.”

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354. “No one had ever told her that heartbreak was a quiet unraveling inside, and so vast a feeling it was impossible to breathe through.”

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355. “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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356. “Maybe superheroes just tied their blankies around their necks so they’d have a little bit of comfort wherever they went.”

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357. “Zofia, Enrique, and Hypnos bolted out of the Chamber of Goddesses.”

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358. “He wanted someone who would enter a room and look for him first, to behold him as though the secrets of the world lay somewhere in his gaze, to finish his sentences. Someone to share cake with.”

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359. “I have since learned that marriage is nothing more than a spell strengthened by daily ritual. The spell requires libations: mundane musings hoarded and pored over, the repetition of small dismays, the knowledge of how your spouse takes their coffee. Marriage asks for that crust of time you were selfishly saving for yourself. Marriage demands blood, for it says: Here is what is inside me, and I tithe it to you.”

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360. “I don’t want it to be fine. Fine comes from the Latin finis, which means end. This feels a lot more like a beginning.”

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361. “Sometimes the best way to win is to walk away.”

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362. “The secret to everlasting love was fear. Fear tethered love in place. Without the terror that came from imagining a life without your beloved, there was no urgency in loving them.”

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

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364. “She looked like the nostalgia that settles in your ribs at the end of a story you have never read, yet nevertheless know.”

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365. “It was lovely and exhilarating, like holding your breath underwater and opening your eyes, knowing you wouldn’t be able to see this forever.”

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

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367. “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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368. “Sometimes you are lured not by the promise of safety but the safety of knowing that here lies a sure thing.”

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

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

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373. “Everyone has a bit of good and bad in them.”

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374. “The moment someone knows what you want, it becomes a weapon in their hands.”

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

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376. “She wanted to let in the moon and the clouds, the roofs of the cathedral and dim stars, and let it all burn and scrape inside her.”

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377. “Life is a heck of a battlefield, but I gotta say, the scenery is totally worth it.”

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378. “I am always my own favorite. That works best for me. Maybe you should try it. Just be your own favorite person and then no one else’s opinion really matters.”

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379. “He didn’t crouch behind or run in front. He stood by my side as an equal.”

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380. “In the end, a fairy tale is nothing more than a sense of hope. Hope lures and tricks. It tempts with shining thrones, exquisite nectars, and loving arms. It whispers to us that we are extraordinary. Exempt. Thus lured, we follow its path. Sometimes we are led to riches. Other times, we are led astray. But this hope never hides its shape, and for its honesty we reach for it and pull its sweet and stinking furs up to our chins, for to live without it means living without magic.”

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381. “Growth and remorse are rather like stars: the surrounding dark makes them vivid enough to notice.”

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382. “But I had forgotten how certain places can be so old they are alive. So alive that they do not simply hunger; they learn to hunt.”

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383. “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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384. “Some knowledge is not meant to be known.”

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385. “Is that a good thing?” “It’s a powerful thing,” sniffed the bird. “And between good and power, I will always choose the latter.”

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

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387. “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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388. “May your journey be bright but not blinding.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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396. “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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397. “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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398. “Renew yourself completely every day, and starting afresh, from the beginning.”

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399. “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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400. “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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