02UndatedAnd 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 / quote ↗
03UndatedPerhaps Choices spring up when history makes way for them. Perhaps they will grow, like legends upon dead conquerors.Roshani Chokshi / quote ↗
05UndatedA story. This was the key to immortality. The things that made kings quiver and deities distrustful: Nothing but a tale.Roshani Chokshi / quote ↗
07UndatedI would rip the stars from the sky if you wished it. Anything for you. But remember to trust me. Remember your promise.Roshani Chokshi / quote ↗
08UndatedI will not let us be beings of regret. I know my past. What I want is my future.Roshani Chokshi / quote ↗
09UndatedNothing 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 / quote ↗
10UndatedNight heralded sleep and shadows, demons and dreams. But I heralded the night.Roshani Chokshi / quote ↗
11UndatedWhat she coaxed out of me was a visceral need to live, and wasn't that what fueled immortality and made it worthwhile anyway? That there were wonders still left to be uncovered?Roshani Chokshi / quote ↗
12UndatedThe problem with guilt was not how it attacks the present, but how it stained the past. Hindsight was a blemish on memory.Roshani Chokshi / quote ↗
14UndatedHis smile banished my loneliness and limbed the hollows of my anema 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 / quote ↗
