I will not let us be beings of regret. I know my past. What I want is my future.

— Roshani Chokshi

I would rip the stars from the sky if you wished it. Anything for you. But remember to trust me. Remember your promise.

— Roshani Chokshi

My joy was ghostly, like something not quite realized.

— Roshani Chokshi

Neither the secret whirring song of the stars nor the sonorous canticles of the earth knew the language that sprang up in the space between us. It was a dialect of heartbeats, strung together with the lilt of long-suffering and the incandescent hope of an infinite future.

— Roshani Chokshi

Night coaxed out the stars, my jailers.

— Roshani Chokshi

Night heralded sleep and shadows, demons and dreams. But I heralded the night.

— Roshani Chokshi

Nothing was more beautiful than a night sky dusted with stars. Nothing was more terrible than a night sky scrawled with a thousand destinies. Night was inevitable. Like me.

— Roshani Chokshi

Perhaps Choices spring up when history makes way for them. Perhaps they will grow, like legends upon dead conquerors.

— Roshani Chokshi

Ruling Aka ran is a strange task. In many ways, it is like balancing an illusion. You must separate the illusion of what you see and the reality of its consequences," he said. "Tell me, my queen, are you ready to play with fate?

— Roshani Chokshi

Surviving isn't just about cutting out your heart and burning every feeling into ash. Sometimes it means taking whatever is thrown at you, beautiful or grotesque, poisonous or blissful, and carving out your life with the pieces you're given.

— Roshani Chokshi