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“You did the right thing," Manthara told me. "No matter what is said about you, Kaikeyi, remember that you did the right thing. You are not wicked."
"Then why do I feel wicked?" I whispered.
"Because those who are good question themselves. Because those who are good always wonder if there was a better way, a way that could have helped more and hurt less. That feeling is why you are good.”
― Kaikeyi
"Then why do I feel wicked?" I whispered.
"Because those who are good question themselves. Because those who are good always wonder if there was a better way, a way that could have helped more and hurt less. That feeling is why you are good.”
― Kaikeyi
“The clan is my blood,” she whispered, her voice thick with emotion, but perfectly steady. “And the Pillar is its master.”
― Jade Legacy
― Jade Legacy
“This is a love story to its blade-dented bone.”
― The Spear Cuts Through Water
― The Spear Cuts Through Water
“The clan can claim everything I have —my time, my blood and sweat, my life and jade—but it can’t have my wife. She’s a stone-eye. She’s the one thing in the world that jade can’t touch.”
― Jade War
― Jade War
“I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions—much good it did me.”
― Kaikeyi
― Kaikeyi
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