Top 450 Roshani Chokshi Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “She was a phantasm to me, proof of the impossible and thus a talisman against the absence that had haunted my adult life.”

— Roshani Chokshi

352. “By the end of our third year of marriage, I understood that 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. I tried to love Indigo as she wished.”

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353. “I’ll perish left to my own devices. Life is cruel, and often without cake.”

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354. “Words had their own power.”

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355. “That was a fate I had looked forward to- to live among parchments and sink into the compressed universes stitched into lines of writing.”

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356. “The House was delighted not to be alone, and I was delighted to be alone with the House.”

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

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359. “If you get in the way of a woman’s battle, you’ll get in the way of her sword.”

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360. “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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361. “She moved lightly. I want to say that it was gentle and serene, like a fawn through snow. But Indigo’s grace was restrained, calculated, as if she knew that people like her could stomp the world into submission and she had no wish to bruise it further.”

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362. “But a shared past didn’t make a future.”

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363. “Too often the truth of a memory lives not in the mind but in the heart, in the subtle and sacred organization that makes up one’s identity. But it is a tender place to reach, and I am wounded by touching it.”

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364. “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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365. “May your journey be bright but not blinding.”

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

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367. “I’m not giving up,” said Aru, closing her eyes. “I’m letting go.”

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

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369. “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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370. “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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371. “I have no idea what that means but it sounds both sinister and old fashioned. Hypnos.”

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372. “If you follow a white stag into an enchanted glen, or open a golden door in an abandoned alley, or find that a mirror’s surface is liquid to your touch – it is never by chance. It is because something has need of you.”

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

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378. “We’ll be untouched, forever, folded into the roots. We’ll have toadstools in our arteries and ant nests in our mouths. We’ll sprout roses in our eyes, and we’ll be knitted together, and I will never leave you, and you will never leave me –.”

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379. “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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380. “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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381. “Even when you decide which world you will live in, the world may not always see you as you would wish.”

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382. “This is why fairy tales are dangerous: their words sneak into your veins and travel into the chambers of your heart, where they whisper of your exceptionalism.”

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

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

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

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

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388. “Hypnos bent down and kissed him.”

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389. “Living things cannot help but be curious, to demand answers. There is a cost to opening doors that are meant to stay closed.”

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390. “Imagination was neither good nor bad. It was a little bit of both.”

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391. “I am scared of you,” she said in a quiet voice. “You terrify me, and that is how I know I love you... but you’re not scared of me at all, are you?”

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392. “In fairy tales, a kiss marks a threshold – between the state of being cursed or cured lies a kiss. But not all kisses cure; some kill. Thresholds go both ways, after all.”

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

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394. “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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395. “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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396. “Life is a heck of a battlefield, but I gotta say, the scenery is totally worth it.”

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

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398. “What I wanted was a connection, a shared heartbeat that kept rhythm across oceans and worlds. Not some alliance cobbled out of war. I didn’t want the prince from the folktales or some milk-skinned, honey-eyed youth who said his greetings and proclaimed his love in the same breath. I wanted a love thick with time, as inscrutable as if a lathe had carved it from night and as familiar as the marrow in my bones. I wanted the impossible, which made it that much easier to push out of my mind.”

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399. “She told me to tell that she loves you, thinks of you often and will always be proud of you. She asks that you stay safe. Always.”

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400. “We all have a role in life. Maybe we’re someone’s sibling or spouse, a teacher or a parent, a ruler or a warrior. And with that comes a duty to show up for the situations life throws at you! After that, you do your best and let everything else go. The outcome? Pfft. Not your problem. People’s opinions? Not the point! When you go home and look in the mirror, it’s your face you’ve got to look at. No one else’s.”

— Roshani Chokshi