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21 " My place beside you. My blood for yours. Till the Green Ember rises, or the end of the world! "
― S.D. Smith , The Black Star of Kingston (The Green Ember, #0.5; Tales of Old Natalia, #1)
22 " Thank you for loving us, Mother and Father. Thank you for preparing us for the unnumbered dangers we’ve faced. We had no idea that when you gave us all the light you did, you were guiding us to one day strike out at the darkness so fiercely. "
― S.D. Smith , Ember Rising (The Green Ember, #3)
23 " This is a place where people make and are made. You are what you do. Choose wisely, young Picket. Choose wisely, brave Heather. Understand? "
― S.D. Smith , The Green Ember (The Green Ember, #1)
24 " We don’t have to win the war today, sir,” Heather said. She hoped she looked braver than she felt. “We only have to win the next battle. "
― S.D. Smith , Ember Falls (The Green Ember, #2)
25 " Growing up is terribly wonderful. But often it’s also wonderfully terrible. Ha, a riddle of words amounting to nothing. A stuttering cleverism that falls as short as my feeble steps. But this is true. A teacher could become rich if he ever perfected the art of helping mature students unlearn many awful things. Enjoy your innocence, my dear. Even if it only lasts the day. "
26 " My place beside you, my blood for yours, 'till the Green Ember rises, or the end of the world! "
27 " We may find pleasure in our duty, but our duty is not our own pleasure. "
28 " She was seeing the other side of the tragedy, the world that lived, for now, only in the hopeful hearts of those who, though not seeing, saw. "
29 " A story to make us brave. "
30 " Shuffler, you're going to have to stop doing that....[....]...It's 'my place beside you,' not 'my place blocking your view. "
― S.D. Smith , Ember's End (The Green Ember, #4)
31 " Was Father getting sadder, or was she just getting old enough to see it? "
32 " It’s called Starseek,” she said, “and this is the star.” “Is it a real star?” Picket asked, his head cocked sideways and his whiskers twitching. “No, little one,” Heather said, “a real star hangs in the sky at night, along with a million others. This is just a game.” “A game?” Picket said. “Maybe they’re all for games. "
33 " 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. "
34 " Dear Kyle, you are the great nitwit of the world. Love, Jo Shanks. "
35 " there is no cost too high for doing what is right and no retribution great enough for doing what is wrong. To believe otherwise is to surrender our liberty to lies. "
36 " How many times in the last two days had she believed she was at the end of her strength, only to somehow find more? "
37 " But no cause is greater than my love for you. I fight because you are in my heart. "
38 " Emma "
39 " uniform "
― S.D. Smith , The Archer's Cup (Green Ember Archer #3)
40 " finished "