“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
“Memories are the grandest illusion of all.”
Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time
“The world had a tendency to trick people.”
Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time
“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
“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 looked different to everyone.”
Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time
“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 Tree of Wishes
“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 Song of Death
“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 Tree of Wishes
“Real life doesn't always sound like it should.”
Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time