Top 160 Soman Chainani Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Professor Manley begins his first day of Uglification class by explaining why villains must be ugly to succeed. Ugliness releases you from the surface – from the prison of vanity and youur own looks – and sets you free to embrace the soul within.”

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

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

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104. “Agatha wondered whether in this room of heroes young and old, Hester was the greatest hero of all.”

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

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107. “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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108. “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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109. “I’m completely happy on my own, unattached and untroubled by the vagaries of love.”

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110. “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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111. “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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112. “Relax your buttocks, dear boy!” Merlin called back.”

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

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

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

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

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

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119. “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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120. “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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121. “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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122. “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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123. “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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124. “Give yourself permission to be happy. That is the magic spell. Then everything will be possible.”

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

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126. “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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127. “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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128. “Tempting a thief is never a good idea, especially a thief who thinks you’ve stolen from him.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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137. “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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138. “Most born into entitlement wither under adversity.”

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139. “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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140. “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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141. “Survival comes not in resistance to the game but in winning it.”

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142. “Hope that we can all be as valiant as the Lady, to face our mistakes, to accept our weakness and keep going, wherever it takes us, not for Good or Evil, not for glory, but to find the truth of who we are meant to be.”

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143. “It’s supposed to be love at first sight. That’s how fairy tales work!” “Time for Plan B.” “Then again, he didn’t say no,” Sophie said hopefully. “Perhaps it didn’t go so badly.” Dot rushed up. “Everyone’s saying you called Tedros a liar, threw poo in his face, and licked his feet!” Sophie turned to Agatha. “What’s Plan B?”

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144. “If love is a connection, as the Dean said, what’s the point if it isn’t real?”

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145. “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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146. “Tedros and I had a conversation once,” said Hort. “I spent the whole time farting silently, hoping it might suffocate him.”

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147. “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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148. “Every year a rascal tries something. But even the sorriest rascal knows there’s no shortcuts to love.”

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149. “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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150. “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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