Ember Rising (The Green Ember #3)

by S.D. Smith

“Yes,” Lander admitted, “but I remember what Captain Blackstar told me. He said we have to keep loving what’s on the other side of this fight—the other side of this rescue— and that will have to make us brave.”

“Who is to say what’s true?” he asked. “All who claim to know it are only seeking power. Which side is right? History will decide in a hundred years.”

“there is no cost too high for doing what is right and no retribution great enough for doing what is wrong. To believe otherwise is to surrender our liberty to lies.”

In the tumult and the trials, we found our callings. And we have done some good.

Thank you for loving us, Mother and Father. Thank

you for preparing us for the unnumbered dangers we’ve faced. We had no idea that when you gave us all the light you did, you were guiding us to one d...

She longed so desperately for the Mended Wood, for a mending that would remake the breaking world in a wonderful way. But was that just a dream? If it was, she would go on dreaming and doing all she could to see its awakening.

I’d rather die than take sides with those whose cause is so drenched in innocent blood.

So examine me, torture me, do what you want. Question me a thousand times. The answer will always be the same. I am meant for the mending, and I’ll do nothing against it, come any calamity or the end of the world.”

“We must not give in to the

desperate demands of the urgent when our project is for the generations.”

But we must do what is effective, not what is desperate.”

But preparation can be a great obstacle to action.

We have a hope, but for now it’s buried, It’s a seed stuffed with stories and schemes. For now it’s the winter, but we can’t be bitter At the Citadel of Dreams!

We must prepare like we never have before. It will take all our resources and all our courage.