Top 450 Roshani Chokshi Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “All I knew was that together we were greater than ourselves. Together we were boundless, oceanic. Together, we commanded the heft of a planet. We were impossible to outrun.”

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402. “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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403. “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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404. “What is fair and what is just do not always look the same.”

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405. “We’re in Tennessee,” said Brynne.”

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406. “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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407. “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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408. “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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409. “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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410. “I treated the truth like a monster that could be summoned by speech alone.”

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411. “To hope,′ said Indigo, clinking her glass to mine. ‘And to all the beautiful ways in which we can forget its fatality.”

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412. “Beauty transformed. Its presence could coax ambrosia from sour fruit or take an ordinary, rained-upon sidewalk and dew it with diamonds. I wanted beauty to touch me, change me, declare me worthy of its notice.”

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413. “Happiness destroyed only begets more destruction.”

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414. “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.”

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415. “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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416. “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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417. “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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418. “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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419. “Never apologize for wishing to devour the world whole, child.”

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420. “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.”

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421. “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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422. “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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423. “As if right then her lungs drew in not air, but the very night sky. Stars fizzed through her veins.”

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424. “But I was a full tale, complete unto myself for better or for worse.”

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425. “Some individuals are like portals, the knowing of them makes the world a far vaster place. In Indigo’s presence my world widened. Brightened. There was something about her that made the eye linger. It wasn’t her beauty; it was the way she seemed superimposed on the room. A mirage that might vanish if I looked away.”

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426. “The archives were cut like honeycombs and golden light clung to them, dousing every tome, painting, treatise and poem the soft gold of ghee freshly skimmed from boiling butter.”

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427. “When someone chose to see you only as small and weak, it made them careless. Careless enough not to notice when a small and weak thing crept past all their expectations and laid a trap they didn’t expect.”

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428. “Botanical Pavilion of Lost Cities?”

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

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

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

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

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435. “A sky of azure and a sky of indigo walked hand in hand into the Otherworld, but only one of them came out.”

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

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437. “Question the very assumptions.”

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438. “When she drank, I was no longer thirsty and when I ate, she was no longer hungry.”

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

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440. “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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441. “Even when knights fail, they’re still knights.”

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442. “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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443. “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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444. “Whatever you have let me know of you, I have loved, and still love.”

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445. “From here, I could learn what no tutor could teach – the way power settles over people in a room, the way language curls around ankles like a sated cat or flicks a forked tongue in caution, the way to enthralled an audience. And I could understand, almost, the lives and histories scrawled into the lines and lines of the records stowed away in the archival building.”

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446. “When I looked at Indigo then, her eyes were soft and wet, and for a single moment I knew the very texture of her soul. “I wish I could win your hand like in the stories,” I said. “I’d fetch you the feather from the tail of a firebird. I’d fit the ocean in a walnut shell. Or find you Cinderella’s glass slippers.” Indigo laughed. “What would I do with glass slippers?” “Dance in them, of course.”

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447. “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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448. “Abandon conversation!”

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449. “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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450. “It didn’t matter how much food I ate. I starved until she lifted a fork.”

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