“The citizens of Ember may not have luxuries, but the foresight of the Builders, who filled the storerooms at the beginning of time, has ensured that they will always have enough, and enough is all that a person of wisdom needs.”
This explicit mention of LACK (i.e., luxuries) seems weird to me -- if you don't have them, AND the city is "all there is" then why mention luxuries at all?
