“Beauty, coveted though it was, could not outlive you. Only actions would.” — Roshani Chokshi Actions Copy Share Image
“What I wanted was a connection, a shared heatbeat that kept rhythm across oceans and worlds.” — Roshani Chokshi Connection Copy Share Image
“-we wish you-" "-a tale-" "-worth telling." "Not luck?" asked Vikram. The gate heaved with wet laughter. "-what good is-" "-such a… — Roshani Chokshi Laughter Copy Share Image
“Nothing was more beautiful than a night sky dusted with stars. Nothing was more terrible than a night sky scrawled with a… — Roshani Chokshi Astronomy Copy Share Image
“I was no more than a guest in my father's home, whittling away the time until a palanquin bore me away to… — Roshani Chokshi Father Copy Share Image
“Fear was a reminder that even the insubstantial could kill. But insubstantial meant it had no shape. It couldn't be conquered or… — Roshani Chokshi Fear Copy Share Image
“I thought you were going to stay away from me," she said. He looked at her, this princess who seemed so dangerously… — Roshani Chokshi Crown-of-wishes Copy Share Image
“What was sureness and certainty? I used to hold on to certainty like a light inside me, hoping it would chase out… — Roshani Chokshi Certainty Copy Share Image
“I used to think fear either numbed or nudged. Now I knew fear did neither. Fear was a key that fit every… — Roshani Chokshi Fear Copy Share Image
“I wanted a love thick with time, as inscrutable as if a lathe had carved it from night and as familiar as… — Roshani Chokshi Carved Copy Share Image
“Although I had never envisioned marriage, I had thought of love. Not the furtive love I heard muffled in the corners or… — Roshani Chokshi Love Copy Share Image
“Instinctively, I shoved Vikram behind me and brought out the dagger.” — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
“No words in any language can pin down exactly how life and death function.” — Roshani Chokshi Death Copy Share Image
“You can tell a lot about a person from the way they occupied space.” — Roshani Chokshi Person Copy Share Image
“The callousness that had saved me so often had destroyed me too.” — Roshani Chokshi Callousness Copy Share Image
“Curses aren’t made to be permanent. They like to be broken or they become resentful that everyone’s forgotten about them,” — Roshani Chokshi Curses Copy Share Image
“And the truth was that he was not afraid of being seen for what he was. He was afraid of being seen… — Roshani Chokshi Fear Copy Share Image
“The problem with guilt was not how it attacks the present, but how it stained the past. Hindsight was a blemish on… — Roshani Chokshi Guilt Copy Share Image
“I love you," he murmured into my hair. "You are my night and stars, the fate I would fix myself to in… — Roshani Chokshi Life Copy Share Image
“ You see, a story is not just a thing told to a child before sleep. A story is control. ” — Roshani Chokshi Children Copy Share Image
“The sage smiled. Sometimes a smile was little more than a sliver of teeth. And sometimes a smile was a knife cutting… — Roshani Chokshi Sage Copy Share Image
“--perhaps monsters were misunderstood gods; deities with plans too grand for humans; a phantom of evil that drank from the roots of… — Roshani Chokshi Evil Copy Share Image
“All war is philosophical. That's why we call it war. Strip it of its paint and it's nothing more than murder.” — Roshani Chokshi Meaning Copy Share Image
“What she coaxed out of me was a visceral need to live, and wasn't that what fueled immortality and made it worthwhile… — Roshani Chokshi Death Copy Share Image
“And perhaps that in itself was the great secret---not just for legacy, but also for life. You could carry a story inside… — Roshani Chokshi Beautiful Copy Share Image
“What property is left to dreamers when every idea has been tamed and conquered? What about the poet who dreams of embracing… — Roshani Chokshi Dreams Copy Share Image
“Swords could also be used for freeing. You could've cut through the chain around the bird's foot and set it free. Swords… — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
“How many times have answers been so simple and yet someone is determined to take the path of thorns instead of roses?”… — Roshani Chokshi Time Copy Share Image
“Light refracted off crystal platters piled with blooms the bright color of new blood, and flickering diyas cast smoke against the mirrors,… — Roshani Chokshi Flowers Copy Share Image
“You see, a truth parted with has its own way of becoming a tale. It is told so often that it stumbles… — Roshani Chokshi Storytelling Copy Share Image
“You know that book of poems I’m always carrying around? [...] In one of her poems, she calls hope the ‘thing with… — Roshani Chokshi Books Copy Share Image
“Stop admiring the view,” he said. “Critiquing it,” I lied,” — Roshani Chokshi Admiring The View Copy Share Image
![“You know that book of poems I’m always carrying around? [...] In one of her poems, she calls hope the ‘thing with feathers,’ and I always think about that…. Maybe when we hope for something, the hope flies off to find whatever it is we’re thinking about…and then it brings it back to us. And when…” quote by Roshani Chokshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bb4/roshani-chokshi-14822_books_you-know-that-book-of-poems-i-m-always-c_2173726.jpg)
