Star-Touched Stories Quotes

“I want to write my own legacy in the stars instead of simply having the stars be my legacy.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Star-Touched Stories

“Sometimes we women are our own worst traps. Our hopes snatch us like quicksand. Our loneliness forges a cage. Sometimes all it takes is one sweet glance and kind word to make us forget ourselves.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Star-Touched Stories

“Although I had never envisioned marriage, I had thought of love. Not the furtive love I heard muffled in the corners or rooms of some of the harem wives. What I wanted was a connection, a shared heartbeat that kept rhythm across oceans and worlds. Not some alliance cobbled out of war. I didn’t want the prince from the folktales or some milk-skinned, honey-eyed youth who said his greetings and proclaimed his love in the same breath. 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.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Star-Touched Stories

“Stories, knowledge...they set the mind alight.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Star-Touched Stories

“Sometimes the act of wanting was more intoxicating than the pleasure of realizing the act.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Star-Touched Stories

“To possess even a single line in the legend of you is the greatest wish I could have made.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Star-Touched Stories