Top 400 Roshani Chokshi Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “The moment someone knows what you want, it becomes a weapon in their hands.”

— Roshani Chokshi

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

— Roshani Chokshi

403. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

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

— Roshani Chokshi

405. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

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

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407. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

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

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409. “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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410. “Some knowledge is not meant to be known.”

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

— Roshani Chokshi

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

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413. “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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414. “May your journey be bright but not blinding.”

— Roshani Chokshi

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

— Roshani Chokshi

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

— Roshani Chokshi

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

— Roshani Chokshi

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

— Roshani Chokshi

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

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

— Roshani Chokshi

421. “What we know of the world are blips and fragments. The only people who can truly speak of history are ghosts.”

— Roshani Chokshi

422. “The magician smiled and swept a bow. “I am called Uttanka,” he said in a rich, deep voice. “Will you hear my tale?”

— Roshani Chokshi

423. “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

424. “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!”

— Roshani Chokshi

425. “I know you’re clever, but do you really think you’re going to outsmart the ocean?”

— Roshani Chokshi

426. “The patriarch had grabbed the girls too dark to be visible in the world’s eyes; whose languages fell on deaf ears; whose very homes at the edge of society pushed them too far into the shadows for notice.”

— Roshani Chokshi

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

— Roshani Chokshi

428. “When she got to the end of the hall, Zofia stopped short. Enrique and Hypnos had not moved from their spot. Their eyes were locked on each other, heads bent low in conversation and then – just as suddenly – not in conversation.”

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429. “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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430. “Question the very assumptions.”

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

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432. “I,” said Hypnos, clearly bored, “am a human.”

— Roshani Chokshi