Raja Rani Quotes

Inside, a merciless raja, calling for executions like one might order a meal.

Ornate jalis, latticed screens that filter out the hot Abai air. Domed ceilings painted with sweet flower blossoms that belong nowhere near a raja like my father.

You know, I bet that the raja is the real killer, not just the snakes. He probably lures his prey into the palace’s Snake Pit and kills his victims with his own fangs.

He speaks to me without pretense. Is this the Ruthless Raja? The bloodthirsty king Amir and I have always feared?

But if that’s the case, why does Amara have the enemy kingdom’s crest on her jewelry? And why does she wear it so freely around the raja?

Too suddenly, I remember the scar on Amir’s face. The one running down my leg. We’re all victims of what the raja’s made this kingdom to be.

I think of everything Amara did. Erasing the memory of me from my parents’ minds. Using the cuffs to manipulate the raja. This whole time, I’d thought the raja and queen had pretended to forget about me. That I’d been beneath their attention, as if I’d never existed in the first place. My history, all of it, gone.