Top 160 Soman Chainani Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It doesn’t matter if you’re a boy or girl. It doesn’t matter who your father is or where you come from or what you look like. Here you are worried that I’ll leave when I see your real self... when that’s the part of you that lets me stay.”

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2. “If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my long life, it’s that every villain thinks they’re the hero of their own story.”

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3. “You can’t beat Evil with Evil. Maybe to win a battle, but not the war.”

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4. “Only once you destroy who you think you are can you embrace who you truly are.”

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5. “To find a happy ending with someone else, first you have to find it alone.”

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6. “Some bonds are too deep for others to ever understand.”

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7. “But no kiss comes without its price.”

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8. “Everytime you do a Good Deed with true intention, your soul grows purer.”

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9. “I’ve already killed you and kissed you more times in my head than you deserve.”

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10. “Beauty is a full-time job.”

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11. “It’s not what we are, Sophie. It’s what we do.”

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12. “Nothing will ever be enough to satisfy the black hole in our hearts.”

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13. “Oh go back to granny’s, you blithering ass,” growled Cinderella.”

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14. “Because we grow up, Filip,′ Tedros exhaled. ‘When you’re young, you think your best friend is everything. But once you find real love... it changes. Your friendship can never be the same after that. Because no matter how much you try to keep both, your loyalty can only lie with one.”

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15. “It wasn’t goodbye forever. Only goodbye for now. And if ever the distance was too much to bear, she would just look inside her heart, for Agatha was already there.”

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16. “Our towers aren’t fair and lovely they’re valor and honor that’s what good is.”

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17. “So go into the Woods and get your Sophie back!” Tedros retorted. “Why don’t you go and get your Filip back!” Agatha barked – Then slowly, they both blushed to silence, realizing they were talking about the same person.”

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18. “Of all the tales in all the kingdoms in all the Woods, you had to walk into mine.”

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19. “It’s the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they’re just as complicated as real life.”

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20. “That’s right. I’m in charge now. You might be the Master of this infernal school, but you are not my Master and you will never be. You said it yourself: the Storian won’t write because it is waiting for my choice, not yours. I choose whether I take your ring. I choose whether this is The End. I choose whether this world lives or dies. And I’m happy to watch it burn to dust if you expect a slave instead of a queen.”

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21. “Tedros in the Sky with Chocolate.”

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22. “Agatha wondered what these girls’ souls would wish for. Depth, perhaps.”

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23. “Enemies disguise as friends and friends as enemies.”

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24. “Someone had to save him from himself.”

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25. “Well, for starters, you only wear black.” “Because it doesn’t get dirty.” “You don’t ever leave your house.” “People don’t look at me there.” “For the Create-a-Tale Competition, your story ended with Snow White eaten by vultures and Cinderella drowning herself in a tub.” “I thought it was a better ending.”

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26. “Love isn’t locking yourselves in or hiding where everything is perfect. Love is facing the world and its tests together, even if you fail them.”

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27. “My boyfriend’s execution. Yes. When is it?”

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28. “It doesn’t matter if you’re a Never, Ever, or whatever. In the end, the fairest of them all wins.”

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29. “Who needs Snow White when they can have me?”

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30. “Because she’d destroy him if he dared love anyone else.”

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31. “Silence fell between the two couples. Even the Storian faltered, unsure who was defending who anymore. “Don’t mind me,” Rafal prodded, smiling. “Who needs a villain when you three have each other?”

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32. “After graduating from our school, they went into the Woods expecting epic battles with monsters and wizards, only to find their fairy tales unfold right in their own houses. They didn’t realize that villains are the ones closest to us. They didn’t realize that to find a happy ending, a hero must first look right under his nose.”

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33. “Anyone can poke holes in a story who doesn’t have the wits to write their own.”

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34. “Who would end up the villain?”

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35. “Watching across the aisles, the Nevers’ faces began to change. One by one, their scowls turned sorrowful, their eyes melted to hurt. Hort, Ravan, Anadil, even Hester... as if they too wished they could have such joy. As if they too wished they could feel as wanted. Gone was their will to fight, lost to broken hearts, and the villains shrank into silence, snakes drained of venom.”

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36. “This time Sophie felt very different in Rafal’s arms as he flew over the bay. Instead of safe, she felt scared; instead of loved, she felt caged.”

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37. “You don’t know me well enough to know that I spend half my life saying stupid things and the other half apologizing for them,” said Tedros.”

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38. “No wonder princesses were so impotent in fairy tales, she thought. If all they could do was smile, stand straight, and speak to squirrels, then what choice did they have but to wait for a boy to rescue them? Princess.”

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39. “But you are my queen. No one but you. And I like seeing you wear it. Because as long as you do, I know you still love me. And given our history of miscommunication, physical cues are helpful.”

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40. “Dot hurled her pizza at her, smacking Hester in the cheek. “Do you know how unfair that is, you contemptuous git! You made me gain weight in order to stay in the coven and now you’re making fun of me for it? Are you that insecure that you needed me to be fat to feel okay about yourself? Well, you picked the wrong piggy tail to pull, honey. I love myself no matter what I look like, so nothing you say to me will ever make me feel ugly again. Because unlike you, Hester, I’ll never be ugly inside.”

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41. “Agatha leaned against the door. “I’m still trying to figure out why you’re friends with me.”

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42. “First time I told my dad I liked a girl, he slathered me in honey and sealed me in a bear den for a night. Haven’t liked one since.” “First time I told my mother I fancied someone, she baked me in an oven for an hour,” Mona agreed, green skin paling. “I never think about boys now.” “First time I liked a boy, my dad killed him.” The group stopped and stared at Arachne. “Maybe Sophie just had bad parents,” she said.”

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43. “Nothing in this world was ever certain. Princes could become as frightening as ogres. Princesses could become villains. Best friends could become enemies.”

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44. “And as a cloud passed over the sun, sending the scene into shadows, the last thing Agatha saw was a new king cast in a golden glow and the old one dragged into the dark by his twisted green chains... The Snake become the Lion and the Lion become the Snake.”

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45. “Sophie, however, remained in place, buffing her ragged nails until she heard the deafening crash. Nonchalant, she crawled over the mass of moaning bodies at the door, wondering how boys had ever survived this long in nature if they didn’t even have the common sense to take turns going down stairs.”

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46. “That’s the difference between Good and Evil, Clarissa,′ the Evil Dean said softly. ‘We know that love isn’t always enough for a happy ending.”

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47. “And yet, even if my heart beats for Evil, that doesn’t mean I can’t find love. That doesn’t mean I can’t find happiness. It just means I have to find love with someone who embraces my darkness instead of fighting it.”

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48. “Mushrooms are fungus and fungus reminds me of feet and I don’t eat feet.”

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49. “To me, a king is a lighthouse. A guide who can cast his glow across his kingdom and bring every last one of us out of the shadows. A beacon who we can look up to when the world seems lost. A bridge who can unite us when our differences seem to stark to reconcile. Tonight, we need a king who is all of those things. A king who can look each of you in the eye and make you feel that you won’t just fight for him or his kingdom, but you’ll fight for our way of life.”

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50. “But as they grew closer and closer, Sophie had opened Agatha’s wings to a love so strong she thought it would last forever. It was she and Sophie against the world. But on that first day of school, watching Sophie with a prince, Agatha realized how blind she’d been. The bond between two girls, no matter how fierce or loyal, changed once a boy came between them.”

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