Roshani Chokshi Quotes

“Aru was twelve years old. Even she knew that half the time she didn't know what she was doing.”

Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time

Kids Knowing Doing Aru Shah Pandava Twelve Years Old

“It was one of the things that she liked best when her mother told her the stories: villains could be heroic, and heroes could do evil.”

Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time

Stories Mother Evil Good Heroes Villains Aru Shah Pandava

“But worry for a friend can make ordinary circumstances extraordinary.”

Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time

Circumstances Ordinary Aru Shah Pandava Extaordinary Worym Friend

“I don’t want it to be fine. Fine comes from the Latin finis, which means end. This feels a lot more like a beginning.”

Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time

Inspiring Fine Aru Shah

“When all other kinds of payment fail, never forget that a drop of kindness has far more weight more than gold.”

Source: Aru Shah and the City of Gold

Kindness Gold Aru Shah

“Aru used to think that friends were there to share your food and keep your secrets and laugh at your jokes while you walked from one classroom to the next. Sometimes, though, the best kind of friend is the one who doesn't say anything but just sits beside you. It's enough.”

Source: Aru Shah and the City of Gold

Friendship Mythology Friendship Quotes Aru Shah Indian Mythology

“I'm not giving up," said Aru, closing her eyes. "I'm letting go.”

Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time

Deep Aru Shah

“First things first," said Aru, lifting her hand. "I cannot speak to you in iambic pentameter. I'm in high school. And I'm in Otherworld training. So, I've got, like, three brain cells left, and it would take at least four for me to come up with rhymes.”

Source: Aru Shah and the City of Gold

High School Brain Cells Aru Shah

“It is not failure to fail.”

Source: Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality

Failure Fail Aru Shah Pandava

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

Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time

Book Learn Good Book Open Minds Aru Shah Pandava New Spaces

“Maybe that's why superheroes wore capes. Maybe they weren't capes at all, but safety blankets, like the one Aru kept at the bottom of her bed and pulled up under her chin before she went to sleep. Maybe superheroes just tied their blankies around their necks so they'd have a little bit of comfort wherever they went. Because honestly? Saving the world was scary. No harm admitting that.”

Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time

Safety Scary Capes Superheroes Aru Shah Saving The World Blankets Pandava

“Tales are slippery, her mother had often said. The truth of a story depends on who is telling it.”

Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time

Stories Truth Mother Tales Aru Shah Story Telling Pandava

“People are a lot like magical pockets. They're a lot bigger on the inside than they appear to be on the outside.”

Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time

People Magic Bigger Pockets Inside Outside Aru Shah Pandava

“This is what we get for thinking that scaley orange skin and fake hair could keep that former demon out of elected office.”

Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time

Trump Ugly Reincarnation Demons Aru Shah Pandava Trump Jokes

“Secrets are curious things. They are flimsy and easily broken. For this reason, they prefer to remain hidden.”

Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time

Broken Secrets Choose Hidden Aru Shah Pandava Flimsy

“It is better, perhaps, to be thought of as a fiction than to be discarded from memory completely.”

Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time

Fiction Memory Remembered Better Discarded Aru Shah Pandava

“Memories are the grandest illusion of all.”

Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time

Memories Illusions Aru Shah Grand Pandava

“The world had a tendency to trick people.”

Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time

People World Trick Aru Shah Pandava Tendency

“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.”

Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time

Happiness Knowledge Special Horror Aru Shah Unleash Pandava

“You will never be a hero. You were never meant to be a hero." Hero. that one word made Aru lift her chin. It made her think of Mini and Boo, her mom, and all the incredible things she herself had done in just nine days. Breaking the lamp hadn't been heroic... but everything else? Fighting for people she cared about and doing everything it took to fix her mistake? That was heroism. Vajra became a spear in her hand. "I already am. And it's heroine.”

Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time

Love Fighting Hero Heroic Heroism Heroine Aru Shah Pandava

“Love looked different to everyone.”

Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time

Love Different Everyone Aru Shah Pandava

“Are you strutting, Wifey?" asked Mini. Aiden suddenly slowed. Brynne looked him over and snorted. "Yup, he's definitely strutting." "Am not," said Aiden. "Yeah you are!" , said Aru, laughing. "Am not" "R-2-" "D-2-," said Aiden before giving up and shaking his head. "Why are you guys like this?" "Boredom," said Mini. "Belligerence," said Brynne. "Brilliance," said Aru. The three of them grinned at each other.”

Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time

Aru Shah Aiden Acharya Brynne Rao

“A Pandava must be so precise and so skilled that they can separate a shadow from its host! They can grab the wind! They are as swift as - ' 'A river!,' shouted Aru. Mini hollered, ' With the force of a great typhoon!' 'With all the strength of a raging fiiiiire - ' sang Brynne. 'STOP SINGING MULAN!' shouted Boo.”

Source: Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes

Humor Aru Shah References Mulan

“More than anything she wanted the world to be uncomplicated, for right and wrong to be as easily divided as the black and white sections of an Oreo. But the world was not a cookie.”

Source: Aru Shah and the Song of Death

World Black And White Right And Wrong Aru Shah Cookie Oreo Grey Conflict

“Real life doesn't always sound like it should.”

Source: Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes

Should Sound Real Life Aru Shah Pandava

“I hereby declare you an official…Potato.”

Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time

Aru Shah Kara Aru Shah And The City Of Gold

“Aru glared. 'Well, you swim in your own toilet!' The fish did not have an eyebrow to raise villainously. But its tone managed the effect well enough, 'And you'll never know when I use the ocean as a toilet. Enjoy the mystery.' It flapped its tail and swam off.”

Source: Aru Shah and the City of Gold

Mystery Fish Insults Toilet Aru Shah

“Aru didn't want to see all those gray spaces between good and bad - she just wanted things to be easy.”

Source: Aru Shah and the Song of Death

Easy Complexity Aru Shah Gray Spaces

“Rein in the optimism Shah, It's too much.”

Source: Aru Shah and the Song of Death

Aru Shah Aiden Acharya

“How would you describe yourself?" asked Tumburu. Aru consider this. And then, in a very measured voice, she said, "Kind." Brynne snorted. "You mean sneaky." "Uh, imaginative," said Mini, a touch defensively. "Very imaginative." No one asked you to elaborate! Aru said through the mind link, but her sisters only laughed. "Kinda weird," said Rudy. Aiden glanced at her. The corner of his mouth tipped up. "Chaotic.”

Source: Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes

Rudy Aru Shah Aiden Acharya Aru Aiden Brynne Rao Roshani Chokshi Mini Lopez

“Aiden really looked at her then. His eyes were wide and dark, but not pure black. There were flashes of blue iridescence in them, like in Urvashi's eyes. Maybe it was an apsara trait. It made sense to Aru. Apsaras spent so much time dancing in the night skies that maybe their eyes eventually mirrored them.”

Source: Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality

Aru Shah Aiden Acharya

“'Please, Shah?' Aru opened her eyes. the swarm of black leaves and dirt was barely six inches from her face. She shuddered, jumping back and colliding with something warm and solid. She caught her breath... Aiden. His hand moved to her waist, drawing her against him. 'I've got you, Shah,' he said. When he spoke, his voice ruffled the wisps of hair that had escaped from her braid. 'Don't go.”

Source: Aru Shah and the Song of Death

Aru Shah Aiden Acharya Aru Aiden

“There's no way I'm coming out there to watch you guys make eyes at each other for five minutes straight!' shouted Brynne from the kitchen. 'We don't do that!' said Aru. You do, said Mini through their mind link. Aiden pretended to be very preoccupied with Shadowfax.”

Source: Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality

Aru Shah Aiden Acharya Aru Aiden Brynne Rao Mini Lopez

“Pandavas, will you see my truth?' See well. Those words, uttered by Varuni, Sage Durvasa, Ratri, and Agni, echoed back to her. Aru's jaw clenched, but she nodded. She owed it to all of them, and, a small part of her said, she owed it to herself.”

Source: Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality

Truth Aru Shah Gray Spaces

“Are you saying the Sleeper left behind Horcruxes?" Aru demanded. "Yeah, I didn't sign up for a Horcrux hunt," said Rudy, looking for the exit.”

Source: Aru Shah and the Song of Death

Rudy Aru Shah

“S. saw that you might need this. The helmets should block Aiden's hypnotic apsara stuff so no one does anything embarrassing... again >:) -N & S P.S. The tambourine? hahaha "Amazing," said Aru, crossing her arms. "Little sisters can troll you at any distance.”

Source: Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes

Aru Shah Aiden Acharya Aru Aiden Nikita Sheela Little Sisters

“Everything was so...massive. It made sense - these were the treasures of gods. Seeing Agni change in size had reminded her that whenever gods fit in her field of vision, they were just humoring her.”

Source: Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality

Gods Aru Shah

“The last four beds inched closer, and Aru felt a terrible drowsiness wash over her. She swayed on the spot until she felt a warm hand close around her wrist, and she looked up to see Aiden staring at her. The starry flecks in his eyes held her steady. 'Don't you dare, Shah,' he said. 'Stay with me.”

Source: Aru Shah and the Song of Death

Aru Shah Aiden Acharya Aru Aiden

“Aru teetered backward, her arms pinwheeling as she scrambled for secure footing. Someone caught hold of her wrist. 'I've got you, Shah,' said Aiden fiercely. It was the last thing she heard before something thudded against her head and the whole world went dark.”

Source: Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality

Aru Shah Aiden Acharya Aru Aiden

“In her head, Aru had envisioned this epic leap where she soared through the air on the shield and pinned someone with her lightning bolt. In reality, she just slid forward and crashed into the back wall with a loud thud. Mini dropped her shield and Brynne ran to her. "What the heck was that?" demanded Boo. Aru groaned. "I don't know....It worked in Wonder Woman." "Are you Wonder Woman?" "I...am facedown in a pile of shame.”

Source: Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality

Humor Wonder Woman Aru Shah Roshani Chokshi

“On a scale of one to Galadriel, how awesome does my hair look?”

Source: Aru Shah and the Song of Death

Aru Shah

“Sometimes light illuminates things that are better left in the dark.”

Source: Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes

Light Evil Dark Aru Shah Pandava Illuminates