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

by Sabaa Tahir

“Don’t you see? So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.”

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.”

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