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

by Sabaa Tahir

When the fear takes over, use the only thing more powerful, more indestructible, to fight it: your spirit. Your heart.

Most successful missions are just a series of barely averted disasters.”

“You can keep wasting arrows, or we can fight.” Fast as a whip, Elias flips one of his scims around and offers it to the man with such blatant and insulting arrogance that I grimace.

So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.”

‘The stars are so different when you’re free.’”

“You always think everyone is your responsibility, Elias. But we’re not. We’re our own people, and we deserve to make our own decisions.”

“So you’ve made a few bad decisions. So have I. So has Elias. So has everyone attempting to do something difficult. That doesn’t mean that you give up, you fool. Do you understand?”

“You gave me a name,” he says. “I want to live to hear it on the lips of others. Rise.”