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

Guilt is what makes you accountable.

— Roshani Chokshi

He loved her. And she loved him. And in such bliss does devastation grow.

— Roshani Chokshi

Her power was a wrenching thing, starless black and sorrow, but my magic was something more...it was hope.

— Roshani Chokshi

His smile banished my loneliness and climbed the hollows of my anemia with starlight, pure and bright...his touch hummed in my bones like an aria -- a song to my dance, a beginning of a promise.

— Roshani Chokshi

I know your soul. Everything else is just an ornament.

— Roshani Chokshi

I love you," he murmured into my hair. "You are my night and stars, the fate I would fix myself to in any life.

— Roshani Chokshi

I promised you the moon for your throne and stars to wear in your hair," said Amar, gesturing inside. "And I always keep my promises.

— Roshani Chokshi

I used to think fear either numbed or nudged. Now I knew fear did neither. Fear was a key that fit every person's hollow spaces---those things that kept us cold at night and that place where we retreated when no one was looking---and all it could do was unlock what was already there.

— Roshani Chokshi

I wanted a love thick with time, as inscrutable as if a lathe had carved it from night and as familiar as the marrow in my bones. I wanted the impossible, which made it that much easier to push out of my mind.

— Roshani Chokshi