Jade Legacy (The Green Bone Saga, #3)

by Fonda Lee

you’ve opened up our country to foreigners like a whore opening her legs.”

probably a Fist who’d already had too much to drink, yelling cheerfully, “I am ready to die for the clan!”

the Mountain and No Peak are the two tigers of Kekon. Whenever you roar, we smaller creatures run back and forth, trying to decide who’s less likely to eat us.”

She’d ruined their friendship, lost his respect and affection. She was terrible with men, she decided, truly the worst.

Port Massy seemed far away, his years there almost like a dream, parts of it happy, others bittersweet, a few truly nightmarish.

Green turning black was an idiom for a jade warrior losing his sanity,

she realized what a fool she was, to have finally fallen for her colleague and friend when it was too late.

“Kaul Shaelinsan, Weather Man of No Peak,” she said, “you can fuck off and die.”

“Wen, will you be my Pillarman?”

“Jade belongs on warriors who take oaths to their clan. Not on corporate soldiers.”

The most honest prayers were inspired by terror.

“Why were you born into this family?” she whispered. “You’re so perfect, and there’s too much suffering here.”

Ayt answered. She smiled again at Shae’s uncomprehending silence. “I executed Ven Sando and his sons for treason ten years ago. But I let his wife and daughters live.” Ayt’s voice was a slurred, dry, acidic whisper. “It wasn’t enough for Ven’s daughter that I die in the bombing. She wanted me to know it was her. I made the error of underestimating another woman.” The Pillar wetted her lips and fixed her eyes on Shae. “I’ve only done that one other time.”

As soon as Shae had uttered, They’re alive, everything had changed.

“Make your choice, Dr. Emery.”

“Don’t show off how much you hate a man until you’re ready to be his enemy,”

But fate makes us who we are and can’t be changed.”

“When something has to be done, there’s always a way to do it,”

Ru might be a stone-eye, but he would not be a weak link in his family. He was his father’s son; he would not back down from any fight or be used by anyone. You did not fuck with any Kaul.

Ashi, I love you—” Koben backhanded her viciously across the face and she fell to the ground, stunned.

Betin Rotonodun?”

“I killed your father.” “You didn’t,” Niko told him bluntly.

the truth of it is that a man like that can only be brought down by his own flaws, in the face of forces beyond anyone’s control. Not by someone like you.”

So many good things have happened since then, and also so many terrible things that it’s hard to be afraid of anything anymore. Whatever’s going to happen will happen, so the most important thing is that we appreciate what we have and the people we care about.”

your friends have a high opinion of you, it doesn’t hurt when your enemies have a low opinion, the lower the better.”

Jade warriors are young, and then they are ancient.

The way to defeat a chess master was not with greater genius, but by forcing her to play a different game.

The younger generation should start fresh with a real chance at peace. But our generation—we still have our debts to pay.”

All of my greatest suffering has come from within my own clan.” Ato turned his face away and silence stretched between the two men.

Anden sometimes wished he could travel back in time to reassure his eighteen-year-old self that he would find his own way after all—