Top 160 Soman Chainani Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Agatha wondered whether in this room of heroes young and old, Hester was the greatest hero of all.”

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102. “His legs crumpled and he fell all at once like a tree in a forest, his princess right there to catch him.”

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103. “So by all means keep telling lies, but not to me, because lies have a certain smell on the breath and yours is starting to stink.”

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104. “Goodness is no weapon against the possessed.”

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105. “The boys went off to fight with swords while girls had to learn dog barks and owl hoots. 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?”

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106. “Every story needs a little impossible.”

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

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

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109. “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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110. “Reaper?” Tedros blurted. “If you think for one second I’m allowing that Satan-worshipper in my castle – ” “Your castle? I thought it was our castle.” “Which means we get a pet we both like.” “No Reaper, no me.” “No you, then.” “You puffed-up, lily-livered, mule-headed – ” Agatha stopped and saw Sophie goggling at the two of them. “I really am better off, aren’t I?” said Sophie. All three of them burst into laughter.”

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111. “Looks like you’ve done enough feasting for a lifetime,” snorted Pinocchio. He saw the whole table staring at him. “Did I say that out loud?”

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112. “Relax your buttocks, dear boy!” Merlin called back.”

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113. “Sometimes I wonder,” Merlin declared, licking a bit of mustard off his upper lip, “where exactly does the food come from? Is there a fourth dimension where a magic hat goes to fetch it? Or does it simply summon turkeys and bread out of thin air? In which case, what is this sandwich really made of?”

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114. “Agatha grimaced. The last thing they needed was this world perishing while they were still in it.”

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115. “The truth cannot be spoken. It must be seen.”

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116. “Please, M,′ said the king, ‘Stay a little longer.”

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117. “The old man cursed at her and went back inside. Dot smiled. “He’s such a good friend.”

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118. “There is nothing more attractive to a man than a girl who silently surrenders her power to him. It is what fairy tales are built upon. Girls who have to pass a test to win a man, tests of pain and suffering, trials of fire, while a man waits on the other side of the flames, yawning and scratching his belly, waiting for one to come through.”

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119. “Because life was fleeting and pointless unless you let yourself enjoy it, savor it, down to its lightest, most insignificant moments.”

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120. “You think he’s your prince? He’s just a puffed-up windbag who can’t find anything better to do than prance around half naked and thrust his sword where it doesn’t belong!”

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121. “You gave me a dead frog for my birthday!” “To remind you we all die and end up rotting underground eaten by maggots so we should enjoy our birthdays while we have them. I found it thoughtful.”

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122. “Give yourself permission to be happy. That is the magic spell. Then everything will be possible.”

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123. “Have you seen my pajamas?” Hort whimpered outside Sophie’s door. “The ones with frogs?” Swaddled in his tattered bedsheets, Sophie stared at a window she’d sealed dark with a black blanket. “My father made them for me,” Hort sniffled. “I can’t sleep without them.”

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124. “I love everything about you. Even the terrible parts of you. They’re beautiful as the good parts. I knew from the moment I met you that I couldn’t love anyone else. Not like I love you.”

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125. “But is it fake if people believe in it? You assume that it is truth that makes a story valuable, because the tales that come from the Storian are true. The Storian writes history. But man is capable of writing stories too and man has no obligation to truth or to history.”

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126. “Isn’t the world upside down enough without it actually being upside down?” Anadil marveled. “Maybe they see things clearer that way,” Hester said. “Eh, I’d say this group is as blind as the rest,” said Anadil. Hester.”

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127. “Survival comes not in resistance to the game but in winning it.”

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128. “Your sister and my brother think their souls so pure that they can’t be attracted to darkness. But we all have two sides. Even the best of us.”

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129. “He was stubborn, rash, prideful, overemotional, and had poor instincts... and oh, how I’d miss the boy.”

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130. “But I’m still yours,” said Agatha. “Because without your love, I’d never have become who I really am. So even if I die, I’ll always be your Good Deed, Sophie. And no evil in the world will ever erase that.”

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131. “Inagrotten’ is their word for paradise. a land of infinite night that awaits them on the other side.”

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132. “Good has a habit of presuming how things should be.”

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133. “Get on, you dimwit!” she shouted at Sophie. “Without a saddle?” Sophie scoffed. “It’ll leave chafe marks.”

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134. “WALLS CAN BE useful,” said Dot as she climbed the fog. “Without a wall, you might not know where to begin. But a wall is a challenge. Put a wall in front of a witch and she’ll find her way past it.”

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135. “You know how allergic I am to cheap fabric.”

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136. “Because your definition of love is small and distorted.”

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137. “Tempting a thief is never a good idea, especially a thief who thinks you’ve stolen from him.”

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138. “I’m thinking that without me, you wouldn’t know you were Evil and without you, I wouldn’t know I was Good.”

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139. “But he could take all the suffering in the world if it meant Agatha would live.”

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140. “To deny one’s impulses only makes these impulses stronger.”

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141. “There is an uneasiness that remains after your best friend tries to kill you.”

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142. “A castle full of boys can end one of two ways. Either its inhabitants channel aggression into order, discipline, and productivity. Or they degenerate into hormonal apes.”

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143. “This world is powered by its stories. Stories that are real to those who live them, but stories that also inspire and teach and belong to every last soul in these Woods.”

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144. “Hort’s talent is busting out of his clothes. Nicola’s is reminding us how smart she is. And my mother’s is an unhelpful mix of cluelessness and evading responsibility.”

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145. “But Dot was already hugging and kissing them both, her two witch friends squirming and gagging, but doing nothing to free themselves.”

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146. “No one looked like her, which she’d thought didn’t matter, since skin shouldn’t matter. Who cares if others judged her for it? Those who saw her only for her skin were themselves blind.”

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147. “Agatha trusted him now. Because he trusted himself.”

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148. “So she sticks close to her father, and whenever he gives gold to her sisters for new dresses and boots, he also slips her some, which Mei uses to buy new books, while the rest she buries under a floorboard so she can one day live free of men entirely in a house of her own with a library two stories high and a garden where she can read.”

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149. “That’s why you remind me of my brother. Your obsession with good form. With rules. With justice. When what you really want is to be like me.”

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150. “Evil thought it had corrupted Good and Good thought it had enlightened Evil, but it didn’t matter.”

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