Ember Rising Quotes

“we have to keep loving what’s on the other side of this fight—the other side of this rescue— and that will have to make us brave.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“Thank you for loving us, Mother and Father. Thank you for preparing us for the unnumbered dangers we’ve faced. We had no idea that when you gave us all the light you did, you were guiding us to one day strike out at the darkness so fiercely.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“there is no cost too high for doing what is right and no retribution great enough for doing what is wrong. To believe otherwise is to surrender our liberty to lies.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“A story to make us brave.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“And if that means the end for us,” Mother said, “then those left alive must…well, they must bear the flame.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“The seed of the new world smolders,” he cried. “But a fire comes first. Bear the flame!”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“We are Prince Winslow’s bucks, all of us.” “We aren’t,” Helmer said flatly. “I’d like to take his head off.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“We all can betray. The question is, will we?”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“They call me Hadley,” he said, touching his temple. “Why do they call you that?” she asked. “Because,” he whispered conspiratorially, “it’s my name.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“work matter for the mending. I know I help invent things that destroy, but they are aimed at the darkness. And I hope that, when they have blown a hole in that darkness, the light pours in.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“Are you come home, my baby girl? Were you alone, my baby girl? Fear not, Love, you are safe in my arms, Home and home and home, again. Home and home and home, again. Fear not, my love, where’er you’ve been, You’re home and home and home, again. Home and home and home, again!”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“A good sister is a gift,” Helmer said. “I only wish I would have appreciated her more when we were young and together. And I wish I had never left her.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“Yes,” Lander admitted, “but I remember what Captain Blackstar told me. He said we have to keep loving what’s on the other side of this fight—the other side of this rescue— and that will have to make us brave.” from The Wreck and Rise of Whitson Mariner”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“Oh, Mother,” Heather said, “we must live every day as if it’s our last. And we never know who we will lose. But those of us left behind must endure. We must…bear the cake.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“Arrows filled the air, cutting down the front line, but soon Picket and Helmer could see little of the battle up ahead. Hearing explosions, they covered their heads. Looking up, they saw that the wolves charged on. The two rabbits saw the desperate hunger of the last of the wolves, surging past their own comrades, slashing out as they did to cut ahead. They were a reckless, rash, and terrifying pack. This was no army, but a frenzied hunting party.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“I am well, Weezie, my dear,” Helmer answered. “I see you have the family appetite.” “I’m still growing, I think,” she said. “So is your uncle,” Airen said, patting her brother’s tummy.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“The Green Ember rises,” she said, holding up the emerald gem. She saw its reflecting glints flicker all around the room. “The seed of the new world smolders.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“May she rise and reign, Rise and reign, May she like the sun ascend! May she rise and reign, Restore again, Let this darkness not be an end. May she rise and reign, and mend.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“We are here and alive, Let us make a life for ourselves, Among our own kind, And end our rebellion, Against destiny. Peace and prosperity forever!”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“My place beside you, My blood for yours. Till the Green Ember rises, or the end of the world!”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“flame.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“And if that means the end for us,” Mother said, “then those left alive must…well, they must bear the”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“hoopvolley.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“pickaxe.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“there is no cost too high for doing what is right and no wage great enough for doing what is wrong. To believe otherwise is to surrender our liberty to lies.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“cousins,”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“Weezie”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“Queen Lillie.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“Chapter Sixteen”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising

“Picket”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising