Soman Chainani Quotes

“It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.”
― Soman Chainani, A World Without Princes

“Sophie and Agatha locked eyes one last time but neither screamed for the other.

Once true loves, the two girls now pulled apart like strangers, each in the arms of a boy, Good with
Good, Evil with Evil...

Both of their wishes granted.”
― Soman Chainani, A World Without Princes

“It doesn't matter if you're a boy or girl. It doesn't matter who your father is or where you come from or what you look like. Here you are worried that I'll leave when I see your real self...when that's the part of you that lets me stay.”
― Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After

“Princes must be so confused when they see you," said Dot. "Most villains don't look like princesses.”
― Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil

“A man cannot force his destiny. A man can only hold it back.”
― Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After

“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.”
― Soman Chainani, Quests for Glory

“...the line between stories and real life is very thin indeed.”
― Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil

“Once a story was unfolding, it seemed you couldn’t go back.”
― Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After

“For the briefest of moments, sound and space feel away, the two of them locked in a gaze so strong that they became reflections of each other. Light and Dark, Good and Evil, Hero and Villain. Only as each other looked deeper, neither knew who was who. For in each other’s eyes, they saw the answers to their own soul’s silent questions, as if they weren’t reflections at all, but two halves of the same.”
― Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After

“A king is only as strong as his kingdom. A king is only as strong as his allies. A king is only as strong as his army.”
― Soman Chainani, Quests for Glory

“You don't ever leave your house.'

'People don't look at me there.”
― Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil