Ember Island Quotes

“Expectations are the enemy of happiness.”
― Kimberley Freeman, Ember Island

“Perhaps that was the reason she felt so hemmed in. Islands were places in between; places neither here nor there, but rather places on the way somewhere. That was how she felt. Not settled.”
― Kimberley Freeman, Ember Island

“Do we honor the past by projecting ourselves forward into the future? By carrying on genes and traits and family stories?”
― Kimberley Freeman, Ember Island

“He had become entwined with my memory of that experience, that deep and thrilling moment.”
― Kimberley Freeman, Ember Island

“a slowly eroding hope in her heart. Travelers”
― Kimberley Freeman, Ember Island

“down to mop up the water with the dress she”
― Kimberley Freeman, Ember Island

“business. ‘Come,’ she said. ‘Up.”
― Kimberley Freeman, Ember Island