Karna's Wife Quotes

“Princess, you have decided to follow the hard path. I cannot promise you the life a royal princess deserves,' he began slowly. 'I am a wandered myself, stuck in an eternal search. I am a vagabond who doesn't know where I am going. My past beckons my present, but I can see only a blurred future. All my life, I have been slighted as a person of low birth- and the stigma will rub off on you as well. Yet, I am not ashamed of who I am...”
― Kavita Kane, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“I would rather devote myself to what I always did - trying to heal people. That is my way of healing myself.”
― Kavita Kane, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“Karna is a good man, but he sees good even in what is bad. His seeing it as good doesn't make the bad good, but makes his goodness look bad.”
― Kavita Kane, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“She sometimes wished she was more thick-skinned, so that she could see nothing, feel nothing.”
― Kavita Kane, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“Condemning and condoning are two faces in the mirror; but it takes more courage to forgive than to criticize someone.”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“How do you decide what is good and bad? The one who sees the bad in what is good is a bad man. Karna is a good man, but he sees good even in what is bad. His seeing it as good doesn’t make the bad good, but makes his goodness look bad.”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“The course of morality is subtle and even the most illustrious, wise people in this world fail to always understand it.”
― Kavita Kane, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“It is valour which defines a kshatriya, a kshatriya does not define valour. You are known by the deeds done; merit has no pedigree.”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“Karna a bad man doing good things or is he a good man doing bad things?”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“Karna gave a mirthless smile and replied evenly,'What is the use of a competition if one cannot be compared with others? Talk is the weapon of the weak; release your arrows instead of hollow words.”
― Kavita Kane, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“It is not what
has happened or what will happen that is relevant; what you do in the now is significant.
That defines your karma.”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“Radheya has always been a rebel against caste and the social hierarchy,' her mother-in-law said, after a brief pause. 'He has constantly been cruelly reminded that as a sutaputra, he cannot aspire to more than he deserves, but he believes in his own worth.”
― Kavita Kane, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“There’s no bigger fool than a woman in love.”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“When I am an old woman, I shall look back on a happy, peaceful life which I dared to choose and live the way I wanted to. What will I gain if I marry a man I don’t love and lose my soul? With Karna, I will gain my life, my soul. I love him. I love him for what he is. I love him for what he will be.”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“Marriage is about working on what has changed, not what you once believed in.”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“Morality is not a rigid formula of mathematics. No standard of it can be laid down for all times, and for all situations.”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“do what your heart tells you, not your pride.”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“The bloodline of heroes—like the source of a mighty river—is never known.”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“Why, Uruvi always wondered, would Queen Madri consign herself to the flames, when no queen before her had joined their husband in the funeral pyre? Moreover, why would the mother of tiny, helpless six-month-old twins, Nakul and Sahadeva, kill herself and leave them orphaned and under the care of her husband’s first wife? It was strange. Had Madri, too, been mortally wounded like her husband, King Pandu, when they had been attacked? Had she been able to talk to Kunti before she died? Had Shakuni played up the curse of the sage to his advantage after all? If he could instigate Duryodhana to burn the Pandavas and the Queen Mother in the lac palace, he would not have any qualms in murdering King Pandu too. The only person who probably knew the truth was Kunti—but she was an evasive lady who knew how to keep her secrets. Uruvi recalled how she had pestered her on her wedding day about whether she had any regrets, but had got nothing out of her.”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“Karna was killed the day he was born. And he died each time his mother refused to acknowledge him.”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“Karna was a hero and died a hero’s death. In this world of greed, power and betrayal, only one man—Karna—has followed the path of righteousness. Not even his other brothers could do it. And I am mourning the death of this great man of all the three worlds,’ said Krishna.”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“The Pandavas have won. And I have been defeated—but not by the Pandavas. I have been defeated by the selflessness of Karna. I did not deserve his friendship. And for him, I want to die too—I want to die on the battlefield. Like a kshatriya. Like Karna.”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“We shall die as we lived—in deceit and duplicity. I know that Guru Dronacharya was killed treacherously, but this was the same noble warrior who had ordered Abhimanyu to be attacked from behind and killed when he was vulnerable. All our deeds have come full circle; it is the order of things that we have perpetuated. So be it. Death would be a mercy. It would be everlasting peace!’ It was as if Karna was waiting for his turn now.”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“Karna turned away. ‘It’s such a lost cause,’ he remarked wearily. ‘Sometimes I wonder why I am here; why was I born? They say there is a reason for your birth, your existence. I am confounded; I have still not found mine. I was born unwanted and lived a life feeling wholly unwelcome in society. My life seems to be a series of unanswered questions,”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“What does it matter who looks after the injured as long as someone does?’ she sighed. ‘You see war in its glory, I see its ugliness,”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“How fair is it to blame Draupadi for every mess? Did she ask Jayadrath to abduct her?’ retorted Uruvi, but without malice. ‘Haven’t the Kauravas brought ruin upon themselves? Draupadi is the catalyst who will precipitate what the Kauravas have initiated. It’s a vicious spiral, which will destroy everything.”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“Living in false hope and illusory expectations is not optimism, Uruvi. It is living in denial.”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“Draupadi deserves her revenge; and I deserve the death she has cursed me with.”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“valour which defines a kshatriya, a kshatriya does not define valour. You are known by the deeds done; merit has no pedigree.”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“It is not what has happened or what will happen that is relevant; what you do in the now is significant. That defines your karma.”
― Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen