“ 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 ou… Roshani Chokshi
“ The worms do not take heed of caste and rank when they feast on our ashes," the Raja said. "Your subjects will not remember you. They will not remember the shade of your eyes, the colors you favored,… 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
“ What property is left to dreamers when every idea has been tamed and conquered? What about the poet who dreams of embracing the night sky? It's utterly impossible. And yet the thought of it sparks son… Roshani Chokshi
“ 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
“ 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… 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… 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
“ 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
“ 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 retrea… Roshani Chokshi
“ Her power was a wrenching thing, starless black and sorrow, but my magic was something more...it was hope. Roshani Chokshi
