Top 160 Soman Chainani Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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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52. “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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53. “Relationships are about taking off the mask you wear to make someone like you and letting them see the real you. The one you hid all the time. The one you never thought was good enough to find love in the first place.”

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54. “In any case, you told me what to wear. Not how to wear it.”

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55. “Even fairy tales have limits,” said Sophie. “Three people can’t have an Ever After. Not without me being alone.”

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56. “Is it really a Lie if someone is unwilling to see the Truth?”

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57. “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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58. “Princes must be so confused when they see you,” said Dot. “Most villains don’t look like princesses.”

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59. “To be in a world of magic and romance and Goodness and then robbed back into drab, pointless life seemed so... wrong. I didn’t belong in a cottage lane with fifteen houses exactly like mine. I couldn’t marry some shopkeeper or cobbler’s boy and slog at the bakery each day just to feed our children. I wanted to find real happiness where The End didn’t mean getting old and useless and being crammed in a graveyard with everyone else.”

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60. “This is no longer a tale about whether you will find fame or fortune or your perfect little happy ending. This is a tale about whether you are capable of growing from the snake of your own story into the hero of someone else’s.”

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61. “And a pink spell?” Anadil said, her three rats looking just as befuddled. “You definitely saw wrong. If a boy’s using a pink curse, it’d be serious black magic.”

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62. “Whoever birthed you would slay herself on the spot if she knew you had her blood!” Tedros spat. “I’m proud to be my mother’s son.”

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63. “A prince and a witch, willing to kill each other for you,” she rasped in her scratchy voice. “If it was me, I’d feel flattered.” She watched the rodents disembowel the lizard and lifted her hooded red eyes. “Thankfully I don’t have feelings.”

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64. “Sometimes the last person you should ask for the Truth is the one who knows it.”

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65. “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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66. “I’m the prince and you’re the princess and rescuing our friend is my job. Just ask Merlin!” Tedros yelled, practically a shriek – “Yes, now you’ve got it, boy,” Merlin spouted, not looking as he trimmed his beard with a thorn. “Sound perfectly female now.”

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67. “Dear girl, it will be a very long road if you spend more time looking backwards than forward.”

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68. “Go ahead, laugh. You can name your children Blond and Blonder.”

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69. “It’s the curse of being Evil. It makes you torment the ones you love.”

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70. “Hurt without reason and you are a beast, not a villian.”

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71. “It doesn’t matter what we are, it matters what we do.”

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72. “Might as well kill ourselves now, then,” Cinderella cracked. Agatha twirled to her. “Or kill you since you’re a vile, black-hearted beast who no one can stand!”

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73. “That sordid, slippery little Snake looked us in the eyes and dared us to sire a king. And tonight, that king will have his vengeance.”

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74. “If there was one word Agatha dreaded more than “ball”, it was “dancing”.”

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75. “So there’s no way home?” Agatha asked, eyes welling. “Not unless it’s your ending,” the School Master said. “And going home together is a rather far-fetched ending for two girls fighting for opposing sides, don’t you think?”

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76. “No need. I know a liar when I see one.” “Mirrors must be especially challenging, then.”

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77. “Get too used to glorious sunsets and it is easy to blame the sun for stealing the clouds’ glory – but withhold the sun and there is nothing to see.”

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78. “You may have been born to do it, but that doesn’t mean you’ll do it well.”

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79. “When it comes to women, men can be quite weak.”

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80. “Please tell me you can turn a person to chocolate,” Anadil asked Dot. “I have enough trouble with lentil cakes, thank you,” Dot nipped.”

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81. “I’m completely happy on my own, unattached and untroubled by the vagaries of love.”

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82. “Every story needs a little impossible.”

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83. “Sophie blinked at her. “You eavesdropped on everything we were saying?” “Eavesdropped? You were yelling,” said Beatrix, looking up. “About the Lion,” said Anadil. “And the kiss,” said Nicola. “And how you don’t know his name,” said Hort, stonefaced. “Sophie kisses Rafal, Sophie kisses Tedros, now Sophie kisses Lion with No Name,” said Kiko. “My mother said kiss too many boys and you turn into a snail.” “Preach,” said Hester. Sophie.”

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84. “It had taken her whole life to make a single friend. And here these girls had become best friends in minutes as if making friends was the simplest thing in the world. Agatha pricked with shame.”

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85. “But love can’t be controlled. Love requires surrender and faith.”

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86. “We’re too busy anticipating our Ever Afters to find the happy endings along the way.”

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87. “And what about your kiss with Agatha? Or Agatha’s kiss with Tedros?”

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88. “Imagine if he looked like me, she snorted. They’d have dumped the baby in the woods.”

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89. “The thing Tedros liked about girls is that they always started the conversation. Most of the time, his job was just to listen, ask questions, and try to understand what in God’s name was going on in their complicated little heads. He rarely had any idea what girls were talking about or why they made everything so torturous in their logic, so playing the role of the strong, silent type usually gave him time to catch up.”

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90. “At last, her Weasel had come.”

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91. “So the men of Bagha Purana did what men do when they’re well beaten by a woman and can’t find a way to fight fair. They pointed their fingers at her and screamed, Witch!”

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92. “All the thoughts in the world cannot extinguish a feeling.”

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93. “No one can hide from their fate without a price.”

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94. “Agatha finally understood. There was no kiss because there would never be a kiss. Sophie had no intention of them going home. Ever.”

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95. “Dot’s boiling chocolate.”

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96. “Agatha let out a rush of air and gripped her old history textbook to her chest. Leave it to a librarian to find the book she needed, she thought, silently thanking the tortoise.”

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97. “And yet knowing all these mistakes were yours, beautifully yours, and you came out the better for it... the boy I left behind well on his way to becoming an extraordinary man and an extraordinary king.” Merlin smiled. “If only from your choice of princess alone.”

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98. “And yet, everything in his eyes said he’d been tortured beyond what a boy could handle.”

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99. “But sometimes to keep Evil from getting in, you have to let Good out.”

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100. “I’ve been beautiful all along.”

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