"Because I did have Evil desires in me, and - if I wanted to be hurtful at you, I'd say that Cheliax ruined that all for me. But maybe even if there'd been no Cheliax in me, I'd choose not to do those things, because of how other people would get hurt, if I did. And hurting people - really hurting them, not like you going on a torture vacation - hurting people is wrong."
"But it means I'm not literally - everything Ione could possibly be, in every part of herself, and I can mourn that, even as I affirm that it was the right choice and don't wish to be any other way."