Ember's End (The Green Ember #4)

by S.D. Smith

“I know it well. But we must think of them not only as they have been but as what they might become.”

“It’s always hard to forgive, but it’s never not worth it.”

She remembered that time with tenderness, but a deep delight welled up within her

as understanding grew that the present joy far outshone the pale light of past happiness. Her ever new and ever renewing delight carried within it every sweet remnant of what it had in the past, but it thrummed within her now and swelled to a perfect pitch.

May the Ancient Author bless and keep you. May the Holy Hero be your rescuer forever. May the Story find you, through every painful passage, at home with him in the end. May you delight in his love and exalt in his victory then. May you always aspire to live as a character you admire. May you know the delight of finding out that the Story isn’t mainly about you. May you know and love the truth and be brave to obey it. May you make a hard dart at the darkness with whatever light you bring, reflecting, like the moon, a light far brighter than your own. May God give you joy!