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1 " Being a ruler is, contrary to popular notions, a calling of self-sacrifice. That is, if one wants to be a good ruler. "
― S.D. Smith , The Black Star of Kingston (The Green Ember, #0.5; Tales of Old Natalia, #1)
2 " It's better to live as you will want to have lived, rather than spend your time worrying about the end. You are right here in your story. Don't skip ahead "
― S.D. Smith , Ember Falls (The Green Ember, #2)
3 " I am afraid... But I keep on loving what's on the other side of this fight, and that will have to make me brave. "
4 " You can choose what you believe, Shuffler, but you can't change what's true. "
― S.D. Smith , The Green Ember (The Green Ember, #1)
5 " He longed for a world where safe places for the weak and vulnerable were common, but that was not this world. Not right now. "
6 " Heather strained to see through the smoke, trying to find her parents and Baby Jacks. She saw a collection of around fifteen wolves in the foreground, about halfway up the meadow, near the fallen maple limb. The maple tree, half-burned with a tangled scar of black char where the lightning had ripped through it, somehow still stood. The hard rain had doused the flames that would have surely overtaken it. "
7 " It's always hard to forgive, but it's never not worth it. "
― S.D. Smith , Ember's End (The Green Ember, #4)
8 " Our love is a treasure, but it's not the house we keep the treasure in.' Heather smiled through the tears. 'There is a bigger world we fit inside, and we can't say yes to our love right here without saying no to the world. I can't. I know you can't either, or you wouldn't be the one I love so much. "
9 " And the Great Wood did mend; brighter and brighter it shine, with more and more light to share. Mending begat mending, and the healing grew, like a disease in reverse, until the wholeness spread to the edge of every map. "
10 " Let’s "
11 " You can choose what you believe, Shuffler, but you can’t change what’s true. "
12 " All of life is a battle against fear. We fight it on one front, and it sneaks around to our flank.” He paused, looked kindly at her. “Yes, Father. I understand.” “I regret many things I’ve done,” he said, “but most of all I regret those moments when I said to Fear, ‘You are my master. "
13 " I regret many things I’ve done,” he said, “but most of all I regret those moments when I said to Fear, ‘You are my master. "
14 " The Green Ember burns; the seed of the New World smolders. Healing is on the horizon, but a fire comes first. Bear the flame. "
15 " Growing up is terribly wonderful. But often it’s also wonderfully terrible. "
16 " What do I always tell you? ‘ Not enough salt is an in-salt,’ and ‘Too much salt is an as-salt! "
17 " we have to keep loving what’s on the other side of this fight—the other side of this rescue— and that will have to make us brave. "
― S.D. Smith , Ember Rising (The Green Ember, #3)
18 " I love a happy ending... because I need hope. "
19 " If you aren’t angry about the wicked things happening in the world all around, then you don’t have a soul.” There "
20 " What is it, Father?” Picket asked as Mother tenderly took Jacks from him. “It’s only that, when you’re older, you hand out wisdom to your children like you know everything, but it is sometimes hard to follow your own advice. "
