A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes, #2)

by Sabaa Tahir

Few people want witnesses to their pain, and grief is the worst pain of all.

“Family is worthy dying for, killing for. Fighting for them is all that keeps us going when everything else is gone.”

Failure doesn’t define you. It’s what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.”

It takes only a split second for life to go horribly wrong. To fix the mess, I need a thousand things to go right. The distance from one bit of luck to the next feels as great as the distance across oceans. But, I decide in this moment, I will bridge that distance, again and again, until I win. I will not fail.

“Because sane plans never work, girl,” she says. “Only the mad ones do.”