Top 400 Roshani Chokshi Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “If you must fight someday, allow me to advise you about one thing: do not fight in anger.”

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352. “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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353. “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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354. “We’ve got hope, a flimsy plan, and a great deal of explosives. We’ve gotten by on less. Let’s go.”

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355. “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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356. “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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357. “It was as if all the silence had been scraped off and thrown somewhere else.”

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358. “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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359. “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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360. “Abandon conversation!”

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361. “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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362. “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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363. “He didn’t crouch behind or run in front. He stood by my side as an equal.”

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

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365. “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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366. “Brynne was changing, too. Her eyes looked ocean-tinted. In a matter of seconds, she blurred through a dozen menacing shapes – a growling panther, an azure bear, a sharp-clawed wolverine, and even a massive saltwater crocodile. Crocodile-Brynne snapped, and a cold wind blew around them. “Uh, what’s going on with you guys?” asked Aiden. “Is it puberty?” whispered Rudy nervously. Aiden swatted him.”

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

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368. “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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369. “I wish my love was more beautiful.”

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370. “He smiled. A true smile. I knew his smirks. His half-grins. Even halfhearted and lopsided upturns of his mouth. This smile was different. It was soft and unguarded. And it softened me in return. I had put that smile on his face and I felt strangely territorial about it. I wanted to keep it.”

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

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

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374. “Words had their own power.”

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

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

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379. “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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380. “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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381. “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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382. “May your journey be bright but not blinding.”

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

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

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

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386. “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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387. “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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388. “Everyone has a bit of good and bad in them.”

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

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

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392. “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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393. “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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394. “Zofia, Enrique, and Hypnos bolted out of the Chamber of Goddesses.”

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

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

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

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399. “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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400. “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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