An Ember in the Ashes Quotes

“Repeat after me,” Cain says. “I, Marcus Farrar, swear by blood and by bone, by my honor and the honor of Gens Farrar, that I will dedicate myself to the Trials, that I will see them through until the Emperor is named or my body lies cold.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“My mother’s name was Mirra. But you—everyone—called her the Lioness. Leader. Head of the Resistance.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Then the Mask’s gauntleted wrist flashes once, leaving a thin red line across Nan’s throat, a line that grows wider and redder as she falls.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“It’s outside the small bedroom window. In the hedge.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“I shake my head and shrink back, hating myself for being such a coward.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“I wonder what she would say if she knew what I’d really been doing in the tunnels. I wonder how she’d feel about my hatred for the Empire. I wonder what she would do if she found out her best friend is planning to desert.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Duty first, unto death.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“She stands two inches shy of six feet—a half-foot shorter than me.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“A Mask,” Nan says. “They’ve brought a Mask.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“where there is life, there is hope”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Skies, she's beautiful.”
― Sabaa Tahir , An Ember in the Ashes

“And then I bring the blade down.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“there are two kinds of guilt, girl: the kind that drowns you until you’re useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Doubt and fear are treacherous emotions before a fight. Together, they can infiltrate the minds of good men and decide a battle before it's begun”
― Sabaa Tahir , An Ember in the Ashes

“O medo pode ser bom, Laia. Pode te manter viva. Mas não deixe que ele a controle. Não deixe que ele semeie dúvidas em você. Quando o medo tomar conta de você, use a única coisa mais poderosa e mais indestrutível para combatê-lo: o seu espírito. O seu coração”.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Eu convivo com a culpa. Mas existem dois tipos de culpa, garota: o tipo que te afoga até você se tornar um inútil, e o tipo que inspira sua alma para um propósito”.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“A vida é feita de tantos momentos que não significam nada. Então, um dia, ocorre um único momento que define todos os segundos depois dele”.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“La vida se compone de un millón de momentos que no significan nada.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“No la había visto nunca, porque, de haberlo hecho, lo recordaría.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Fear can be good, Laia. It can keep you alive. But don’t let it control you. Don’t let it sow doubts within you. When the fear takes over, use the only thing more powerful, more indestructible, to fight it: your spirit. Your heart.’ —Teluman”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Fear is only your enemy if you allow it to be. —Teluman”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“There are two kinds of guilt,’ I say softly. ‘The kind that’s a burden and the kind that gives you purpose. Let your guilt be your fuel. Let it remind you of who you want to be. Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It’s damaged, but it’s there. Don’t let them take it from you, Elias.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Serra is never this cold in the summer. It’s hardly ever this cold in the winter. I look sideways at Cain. The weather must be his doing – his and his ilk. The thought darkens my mood. Is there anything they can’t do?
‘Yes, Elias,’ Cain answers my question. ‘We cannot die.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“But he never seemed to focus on what could turn out wrong. He only ever thought about how things could turn out right.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“So my choices are to stay and be evil or to run and be evil. Wonderful. —Elias”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“I don't believe in the supernatural. Not when there's worse that roams the night”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“The swordpoint is my priest. The dance of death is my prayer. The killing blow is my release.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“If I feel regret,” I say, “it’s that I wasn’t willing to die sooner. That I wasn’t willing to cut my own throat in the Third Trial instead of killing men I’d known for years.” I stand and go toward her. “I don’t regret not killing Laia. I’ll never regret that.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Because I don’t care what I saw on that nightmare battlefield. I won’t kill her. And I won’t let anyone else kill her either.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Life is hard enough without having to avoid”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes