Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1)

by C.S. Pacat

Her first instinct had been to save her brother. Will’s had been to save everyone.

“They’re not going to find me.” “You don’t know that.” “If they do,” said Will, “we’ll go together.” “Why would you—” “You saved my life,” said Will.

“But even in the darkest night, there is a star.”

“Kindness is never a mistake,” said the Elder Steward. “Somewhere in the heart it is always remembered.”

“When the past is forgotten, then it can return. Only those who remember have the chance to stave it off. For the dark is never truly gone; it only waits for the world to forget, so that it may rise again.”

“I think what people were is less important than what they are. And what people are is less important than what they could be.”