Top 400 Roshani Chokshi Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “In debating the merits of pursuing hidden treasure, one must weigh the risk of whether it was never meant to be found and if so, why?”

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352. “Botanical Pavilion of Lost Cities?”

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353. “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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354. “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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355. “My life, and whatever is left of it, will not be what his soul gnaws on to regain its strength. My death is not in service of his character, and I will not be a sacrifice simply for him to find his peace of mind. He is not my responsibility to save.”

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356. “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.”

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357. “Abandon conversation!”

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358. “Actions have a better voice than words.” Enrique, who had been assembling the last bits of a projection, looked up and shook his head. “It’s actions speak louder than words.” “Whatever. I like my version better.”

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359. “As a scholar, I have always found dreams to be frustrating – if not lazy – motifs. They might be portents or prophecies, messages or mysteries. Dreams might pass through gates of horn and speak true, or sneak through gates of ivory and speak false. At it’s heart, a dream is a door.”

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360. “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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361. “What is science but a magic we cannot fathom?”

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

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363. “Some people could walk with galaxies tilting at their heart, planets grinding against their ribs, whole worlds dragging in their wake and never stealing their balance.”

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364. “As if right then her lungs drew in not air, but the very night sky. Stars fizzed through her veins.”

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365. “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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366. “Even when knights fail, they’re still knights.”

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367. “Slowly, Hypnos put down the rest of the cookie. His gaze shuttered. When he stood, he didn’t look at them, choosing instead to brush invisible crumbs from his fine suit.”

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368. “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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369. “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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370. “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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371. “Imagination was neither good nor bad. It was a little bit of both.”

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372. “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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373. “I treated the truth like a monster that could be summoned by speech alone.”

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374. “It was as if all the silence had been scraped off and thrown somewhere else.”

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

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377. “I’ve been trying to find a way to live in this world. Barring that, I was looking for a way to leave it.”

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378. “Words had their own power.”

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379. “Pretty’ is a stretch. Let’s call you ‘striking.’ Or ‘impossible to look away from.’” “Oooh. Like the sun?” “I was thinking more along the lines of a train wreck.” Enrique let out a wounded hmpf.”

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380. “No, but you really must,” said Enrique, looking exceptionally wounded. “I can’t feed myself, Laila. I’ll perish left to my own devices. Life is cruel, and often without cake.”

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381. “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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382. “The matriarch of House Kore was running late for a dinner. In the normal course of things, she did not care for punctuality. Punctuality, with its unseemly whiff of eagerness, was for peasants.”

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383. “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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384. “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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385. “If you must fight someday, allow me to advise you about one thing: do not fight in anger.”

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386. “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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387. “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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388. “Zofia, Enrique, and Hypnos bolted out of the Chamber of Goddesses.”

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389. “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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390. “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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391. “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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392. “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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393. “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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394. “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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395. “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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396. “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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397. “Rein in the optimism Shah, It’s too much.”

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

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

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