Top 400 Roshani Chokshi Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

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

— Roshani Chokshi

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

— Roshani Chokshi

404. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

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

— Roshani Chokshi

406. “No one had ever told her that heartbreak was a quiet unraveling inside, and so vast a feeling it was impossible to breathe through.”

— Roshani Chokshi

407. “Maybe superheroes just tied their blankies around their necks so they’d have a little bit of comfort wherever they went.”

— Roshani Chokshi

408. “Zofia, Enrique, and Hypnos bolted out of the Chamber of Goddesses.”

— Roshani Chokshi

409. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

410. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

411. “She looked like the nostalgia that settles in your ribs at the end of a story you have never read, yet nevertheless know.”

— Roshani Chokshi

412. “It was lovely and exhilarating, like holding your breath underwater and opening your eyes, knowing you wouldn’t be able to see this forever.”

— Roshani Chokshi

413. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

414. “Sometimes you are lured not by the promise of safety but the safety of knowing that here lies a sure thing.”

— Roshani Chokshi

415. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

416. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

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

— Roshani Chokshi

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

— Roshani Chokshi

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

— Roshani Chokshi

420. “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

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

— Roshani Chokshi

422. “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

423. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

424. “Rein in the optimism Shah, It’s too much.”

— Roshani Chokshi

425. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

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

— Roshani Chokshi

427. “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.”

— Roshani Chokshi

428. “Some knowledge is not meant to be known.”

— Roshani Chokshi

429. “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

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

— Roshani Chokshi

431. “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

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

— Roshani Chokshi