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“The world moves to the tune of logic, even if it wears the face of chaos.”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“I am not interested in recollections of the past," said Vikram, holding my gaze. "I have a future now. There's nothing sweeter than that.”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“What was sureness and certainty? I used to hold on to certainty like a light inside me, hoping it would chase out the dark unknown. But certainty was a phantom strung together on hopes. It would lead you astray at the first chance.”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“I’ll never forget what burning roses look like. All those scarlet petals turning incandescent and furious. Like the last fl are of the sun before an eclipse swallows it from the sky.”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“Fear was a reminder that even the insubstantial could kill. But insubstantial meant it had no shape. It couldn't be conquered or tamed or avoided. Only moved through, with force and will.”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“Death might be waiting, but I was going to be a queen. would have my throne if I had to carve a path of blood and bone to get it back.
Death could wait.”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“Sometimes weakness wore the face of strength, and sometimes strength wore the face of weakness.”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“In Bharata, I guarded myself. Weakness was a privilege. It divided you, snipped out your secrets and gave every sliver power over you. I didn’t have parts to spare. Bharata called me their Jewel, and maybe I was like one. Not sparkling or precious. But a cold thing wearing a hundred faces. Like facets on a gem. One for every person.”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“Vikram hated fear. He hated how it fed on him and stripped away his comfortable blindness. Fear forced him to hold up the contents of his heart to the light.”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“I’ve always loved tales of broken lovers who roam through countrysides singing their stories of woe and separation, their honey- sweet longing for the next life when they can suddenly be re united. It makes other people happy, you see. It makes people grateful that it hasn’t happened to them.”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“What was magic anyway, but the world beheld by someone who chose to see it differently?”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“A story had no owner ship. A story could break its bones, grow wings, soar out of reach and dive out of sight in the time it took just to draw breath. It meant we weren’t walking a cut path. We carved it into existence with
every step.”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“A story. This was the key to immortality. The things that made kings quiver and deities distrustful: Nothing but a tale.”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“Surviving isn’t just about cutting out your heart and burning every feeling into ash. Sometimes it means taking what ever is thrown at you, beautiful or grotesque, poisonous or blissful, and carving out your life with the pieces you’re given.”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“True war isn’t philosophical.”
“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, A Crown of Wishes

“But for the first time, I wanted to believe in the things that outlasted us: the stories that came to life in a child’s head, the fear of the dark, the hunger to live. Those were the footsteps that not even Time could discover and erase, because they lived far out of reach, in the song of blood coursing through veins and in the quiet threads that made up dreams. I wanted to hold the hope of those tales within me and follow it like a lure all the way back to myself.”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“And the truth was that he was not afraid of being seen for what he was. He was afraid of being seen as someone who could never be more.”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“I’d almost forgotten the true power of a story … how it lulled you outside your thoughts, let you process the world in a way that was palatable. Not poisonous. Calm rushed through me.”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“You cannot break me with a tale, brother.”

“You’re happy, aren’t you? You’re loved. You love others. I think people are convinced that if you asked the sun not to rise, it would stand down for you. But there’s only one story that people like better than a rise to fame—a fall from grace. And I can make it swift. And I can take all this away. You see, a story is not just a thing told to a child before sleep. A story is control.”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“You see, a truth parted with has its own way of becoming a tale. It is told so often that it stumbles in the telling, little bits flaking off, little bits sticking on, and the years accrete and they tend to warp the truth, press it into something it was not at the beginning---not a lie, but a tale. It's easier to see the truth when you disguise it.”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“And perhaps that in itself was the great secret---not just for legacy, but also for life. You could carry a story inside you and hold it up to the light when you needed it the most. You could peer through it, like a frame, and see how it changed your view when you looked out onto the world.”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“He had spent hours listening to how the pull of certain people would supposedly make the world stop. Now he knew it was wrong. The word hadn't stopped. The world had just started to churn and breathe and live.”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“He’d built his life on wanting the impossible— true power, recognition, a future— and now magic had found him the moment he stopped looking. It breathed life into all those old dreams, filling him with that most terrible of questions:
What if . . .”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“Curses aren’t made to be permanent. They like to be broken or they become resentful that everyone’s forgotten about them,”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“If your eyes could speak, what would they say”
― Max Vandenburg "The Book Thief"

“Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear?”
― Markus Zusak

“I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.”
― Markus Zusak

“Make yourself a myth and live within it, so that you belong to no one but yourself.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“Nothing but a symbol? People die for symbols. People have hope because of symbols. They're not just lines. They're histories, cultures, traditions, given shape.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“History is a myth shaped by the tongues of conquerors.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves