Roshani Chokshi

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

“A particularly good book had a way of opening new spaces in one's mind. It even invited you to come back later and rummage through what you'd learned.”

“Nothing but a symbol? People die for symbols. People have hope because of symbols. They're not just lines. They're histories, cultures, traditions, given shape.”

“Fear grew in places unlit by knowledge”

“Sometimes you don't even know how special you might be. Sometimes it takes moments of horror or happiness to, if you will, unleash that knowledge.”

“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.”