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

by Sabaa Tahir

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

because more than reminding me of him, it reminded me of who I was around him. Braver. Stronger. Flawed, certainly, but unafraid.

“But you’re not the judge, are you? It’s my life you took. It’s my choice whether I wish to forgive you or not.”

You always think everyone is your responsibility. . . . We’re our own people, and we deserve to make our own decisions.

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.