Avatar: The Rise of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #1)

by F.C. Yee

want you to be proud of me, Yun, not satisfied with the performance of the Avatar.”

Avatars tread paths of great destiny. Every action they take is meaningful.” They meaningfully passed another three dull, meaningful hours in southward flight.

Or did you plant them deep enough that the earth muffles their screams?”

“For example, I know who holds the Royal Academy record for the most ‘accidental’ kills during Agni Kais, Madam Headmistress.”

Jianzhu made the Earth Kingdom sound like different pieces of flesh stitched together to close a wound.

More than once around the house she’d heard the expression that Jianzhu’s word, his friendship, was worth more than Beifong gold.

But if Jianzhu was telling her to throw away the idea of containing herself, to stop minimizing the space she took up, to let herself grow and rise to her full dimensions . .

She began to choke on her own element, her lungs clogging with grit.

she couldn’t be a creature of grace, then she’d be a battering ram.

“Both sides” was a rhetorical weapon used by hypocrites and the ignorant.