Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Reckoning of Roku (Chronicles of the Avatar Book 5)

by Randy Ribay

“Everything in this world is temporary.”

“In order to fly, one must first learn to let go of the ground.”

“Our breath gives life to our words as much as our actions. Let both matter.”

“We borrow from the Earth; we return to the Earth. We are physical; we are spiritual. And when we leave this world, we continue to exist in all the ways seen and unseen in which we influenced the lives around us.”

“Another thing I’ll never understand is your whole neutrality stance. Don’t you get that doing nothing is doing something? Avatar Kyoshi said that standing idly by when injustice occurs allows that injustice to continue. Swooping in afterward to provide aid after the conflict doesn’t help end the conflict.”

“There’s a big part of me that doesn’t want that, you know? That feels like if I stop grieving my sister—even for a moment—then that means I’m forgetting her.”

“He didn’t need to die.” “What is the alternative?” “I don’t know. Prison, I guess.” “Would it have been a more humane ending for him to slowly waste away in a cage while expending countless resources to ensure he never escaped to do more harm?”