An Ember in the Ashes Quotes

“He was called the Masked One, for the unearthly silver mask he wore to scare the hell out of his enemies.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

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

“What about our destinies? Our souls?"
"They took our souls a long time ago, Elias.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Nan always said that as long as there is life, there is hope”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“The district is a hive of movement and sound, busier on a regular day than most markets are on festival days. Sparks fly from hammers as big as my head, forge fires glow a red deeper than blood, and cottony plumes of steam erupt every few feet from freshly quenched swords. Blacksmiths shout orders as apprentices jostle to follow them. And above it all, the strain and pump of hundreds of bellows, creaking like a fleet of ships in a storm.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“las mujeres todavía se sonrojan cuando las mira a los ojos”
― Sabaa Tahir, Una llama entre cenizas

“Du hast eine Seele. Sie hat Schaden genommen, aber sie ist immer noch da. Lass nicht zu, dass sie sie dir nehmen, Elias.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Cook’s voice is nothing like a Tribal Kehanni’s: It is stern where a tale-spinner’s would be gentle, all edges where a tale-spinner’s would be mellow and curved.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Victor. The word thuds to the ground like a scim falling from a dead hand.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Of course they’ll catch him.” I fail to keep the bitterness out of my voice, and Helene gives me a hard look.
“The cowardly scum,” I add.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Her hands, so steady when she stirs vats of jam or braids my hair, flutter like frantic birds, desperate for me to move faster.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Keenan tries to take my arm, but I dodge him, pulling out Elias’s dagger. Mazen’s men rush forward, but I’m closer than they are, and they aren’t fast enough. In an instant, I have the blade at the Resistance leader’s throat.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“from someone who isn’t me. “You are full, Laia. Full of life and dark and strength and spirit. You are in our dreams. You will burn, for you are an ember in the ashes. That is your destiny. Being a Resistance spy—that is the smallest part of you. That is nothing.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“I think of Spiro Teluman then. Of what he said to me the last time I saw him. “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

“Always so afraid of the darkness within.” Mamie takes my hands. “Don’t you see? So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Fear is only the enemy if you allow it to be”
― sabaa tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“But it's still near, an enemy pacing impatiently outside the gates. And eventually, it bursts through, burning and reaving.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“He holds happiness at bay, I realize. He doesn't trust it.”
― 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.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“My knife is still at Mazen’s throat. “You’ll pay for this,” I say to him. “I swear it to the skies, to the stars. You’ll pay.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“I look up at the stars hanging low in a sky that makes me think I’m seeing the infinite. But beneath their cold gaze, I feel small. All the beauty of the stars means nothing when life here on earth is so ugly”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“There's no secret entrance into Blackcliff, Laia. Even if there was, I wouldn't be stupid enough to try to attack a school of Masks." "Then how--" "How?" he muses. "A good question. How do you get rid of a girl who blunders into your hideout at the most inopportune moment, claiming to be the long-lost daughter of the Lioness? How do you appear in essential faction in the Resistance when they stupidly insist you help her save her brother? How do you make it look like you're helping her when in fact you don't have the time or the men to do so?" My mouth goes dry. "I'll tell you how," Mazen says. "You give the girl a mission she won't come back from. You send her to Blackcliff, home of her parents' killer. You give her impossible tasks, like spying on the most dangerous woman in the Empire, like learning about the Trials before they even occur.”
― Sabaa Tahir Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Wir sind alles füreinander. Und ich verrate sie. Erneut.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes