Top 400 Roshani Chokshi Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “I know you’re clever, but do you really think you’re going to outsmart the ocean?”

— Roshani Chokshi

402. “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

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

— Roshani Chokshi

404. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

405. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

406. “Question the very assumptions.”

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

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

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409. “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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410. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

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

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

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

— Roshani Chokshi

415. “Welcome to the Night Bazaar,” he said. “On behalf of the gods and storytellers around the world, we hope you leave with your life intact and your imagination brimming.”

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416. “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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417. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

418. “I wish my love was more beautiful.”

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419. “Our illusions weave roses around us, and when we try to escape, we are met with thorns.”

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420. “Happiness destroyed only begets more destruction.”

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421. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

422. “Enrique didn’t want a forced love. He wanted a love like a light, a presence that drove out the shadows and recast the world into something warm.”

— Roshani Chokshi

423. “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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424. “And then Enrique hooked his thumbs together and made a strange waving motion with his hands. “You’re a bird?” “A moth!” said Enrique. “A moth approaching a flame!” “That’s a very alarming moth.”

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

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426. “Answering a wrong with a wrong doesn’t make it right.”

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427. “Anger makes one blind to happiness.”

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428. “Look. We’ve never met! I know my mailbox better than you.”

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429. “One whiff and Aru saw corpses hanging from trees and a greedy, lengthening shadow.”

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430. “That might drive another man insane, but I’d had more than twenty years to make peace with the lightless space between what you cannot believe is a truth and what you know must be a lie.”

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431. “For a kiss like this, even hell could put forth stars.”

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432. “Hypnos bent down and kissed him.”

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