Once More Upon a Time Quotes

“You can wander the world and be beholden to no one, and still find yourself trapped.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Once More Upon a Time

“What are you thinking about?"
Ambrose did not hesitate. "You."
"What about me?"
"The things I've learned about you," he said openly.
"Such as?"
"For one, you make a terrible statue---"
"I shall mourn that till the end of my days.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Once More Upon a Time

“Much more than a year and a day has passed, but that does not stop them from remembering how to fall in love. Sometimes it takes coaxing and listening. Sometimes it takes laughter and tears. But the thread is there if you wish to lift it up to the light and follow it down whatever corridors of time it crosses through.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Once More Upon a Time

“Once upon a time, there was a king and queen in a land called Love's Keep who once loved one another, but alas, no more.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Once More Upon a Time

“I just realized I never get hungry. Do you think that’s normal for horses?”
― Roshani Chokshi, Once More Upon a Time

“The cloak sighed and asked in a small voice, Did I perform poorly? Is that why Imelda is a statue and not talking to us?”
― Roshani Chokshi, Once More Upon a Time

“I can’t imagine why I’d stay away,” she said softly.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Once More Upon a Time

“Just below the reach of the oars stood an underwater grove full of statues with outstretched hands. Weeds wrapped around their throats and fingers; pale crabs scuttled through their flung-open mouths and made homes in the ruins of their teeth.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Once More Upon a Time

“He was a fool. But he was a happy fool because he’d been wrong the whole time, and a painful joy needled up behind his ribs.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Once More Upon a Time

“For one moment, the candlelight conspired to render them unfamiliar to the other.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Once More Upon a Time

“Okay, fine, maybe I was courting a witch and didn’t let her know there was another witch I was sending letters to in a different country… But I never said we were exclusive…”
― Roshani Chokshi, Once More Upon a Time

“And some granola. One can never go amiss in life with some granola.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Once More Upon a Time

“Acquiring shoes is not the same thing as deciding to walk around in them.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Once More Upon a Time

“I’ll do anything!” Prince Ambrose declared. Privately, the witch thought about how tedious altruism is, but publicly, she informed the prince of the cost:”
― Roshani Chokshi, Once More Upon a Time

“If he could want so little, then very little could hurt him. If he learned early that everything could be taken away, then he would be attached to nothing but the pursuit of power.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Once More Upon a Time

“His father had taught him distance.

If he could want so little, then very little could hurt him. If he learned early that everything could be taken away, then he would be attached to nothing but the pursuit of power.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Once More Upon a Time

“Oh, stop rooting around for a compliment."
"Toss me one and I'll stop searching.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Once More Upon a Time

“The bed tensed.
It knew.
The mattress folded sharply inward, and Ambrose gasped for air. This was it. He was going to die. Trapped in a bed that was quite possibly trying to eat him and without having done anything remotely exciting within it.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Once More Upon a Time