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The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1) QUOTES

The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1) QUOTES

1 " Her power was a wrenching thing, starless black and sorrow, but my magic was something more...it was hope. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)

2 " And in such bliss does devastation grow. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)

3 " Who wanted to be smiled at by the girl that trailed shadows like pets, conjured snakes and waited for Death, her bridegroom, to steal her from these walls? "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)

4 " 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. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)

5 " 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 lilt of long suffering and the incandescent hope of an infinite future. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)

6 " I know your soul. Everything else is just an ornament. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)

7 " My joy was ghostly, like something not quite realized. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)

8 " He loved her. And she loved him. And in such bliss does devastation grow. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)

9 " A memory is a fine legacy to leave behind. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)

10 " Father once said the real language of diplomacy was in the space between words. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)

11 " Night coaxed out the stars, my jailers. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)

12 " I would rip the stars from the sky if you wished it. Anything for you. But remember to trust me. Remember your promise. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)

13 " I will not let us be beings of regret. I know my past. What I want is my future. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)

14 " Guilt is what makes you accountable. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)

15 " His 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 , The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)

16 " No matter where we are, we’ll always share the same sky. We can always find each other in the same constellation. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)

17 " That was a fate I had looked forward to- to live among parchments and sink into the compressed universes stitched into lines of writing. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)

18 " Ruling Akaran is a strange task. In many ways, it is like balancing an illusion. You must separate the illusion of what you see and the reality of its consequences," he said. "Tell me, my queen, are you ready to play with fate? "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)

19 " Where are we going?" I asked. "The main road leads to all of the major kingdoms."
"Not all of them," said Amar. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)

20 " 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 , The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)