Ember’s End Quotes

“Shuffler, you're going to have to stop doing that....[....]...It's 'my place beside you,' not 'my place blocking your view.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“It’s always hard to forgive, but it’s never not worth it.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“Dear Kyle, you are the great nitwit of the world. Love, Jo Shanks.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“Picket instinctively stepped in front of Emma as the Preylords dropped lower and lower, nearing the edge of the city. “Shuffler, you’re going to have to stop doing that,” Emma said, hooking him with her arm. “It’s ‘my place beside you,’ not ‘my place blocking your view.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“Do you even know how to use one?' he asked. "The sharp part at the bad guys?' 'That's the general idea.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“Dreams do … not come true,” Picket whispered back. “Inspiring,” Emma said flatly. “That’s going in my book of Shuffler’s Collected Wisdom. I’m going to write it after the war—really show Heather who’s the true scribe.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“Because you loved me. Before I was anything. Before I was at all lovable, you loved me. I won't forget.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“I’m prepared to die by getting caught,” he whispered, “but not by heart attack because of you two idiots creeping up on me like that.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“I like you, Shanks. You remind me of me - well, me a long time ago.' 'That's pretty insulting,' Jo said, 'but I've heard worse.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“One must either sacrifice for great accomplishment or sacrifice great accomplishment”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“And the Great Wood did mend; brighter and brighter it shine, with more and more light to share. Mending begat mending, and the healing grew, like a disease in reverse, until the wholeness spread to the edge of every map.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“Lord Captain Helmer once said that long speeches before meals are crimes of war.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“Almost getting killed is stressful.' Kylen said, wiping his eyes. 'I feel like I've been doing it my whole life.' 'We have so much in common,' Jo said as they resumed their march.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“Our love is a treasure, but it's not the house we keep the treasure in.' Heather smiled through the tears. 'There is a bigger world we fit inside, and we can't say yes to our love right here without saying no to the world. I can't. I know you can't either, or you wouldn't be the one I love so much.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“Picket turned, smiled, and rushed Lallo with a leaping kick, which sent the surprised buck to the ground. Picket didn’t leave him there. He kicked his glider pack so that it crashed into Lallo’s head, then snagged several signal flags from a nearby shelf and attacked the astonished rabbit with them. Lallo blocked the first blow, then kicked out and missed as Picket dodged to the side and drove a flag’s thick handle into his middle. Lallo gasped, sinking to his knees. Picket rose and kicked him down. “How many weapons do I have?” Picket asked. “A thousand?” Lallo gasped. “Lesson one,” Picket said, extending a hand to the crumpled buck. “Everything’s a weapon.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“Was that my ribbon?” Weezie asked. “Maybe.” “Maybe?” Weezie frowned in mock severity. “Picket Thingstealer, bane of the does.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“Come, ye fine does, and look upon me, I’m big as a mountain, but dumb as a tree … I dance like a madman, just about to sneeze, So come, ye fine does, and look upon me.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“Picket sighed. “You’re never going to let me forget that song, are you?” “No. I can’t see that ever happening.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“Uncle Picket,” Hanna asked, tugging on his shirt, “who made up Starseek?” “Your mother, the queen, invented the game,” Picket answered with a smile. “But,” Queen Heather said, “Uncle Picket made it magic.” The End”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“But she was brave, like you. She chose to trade her life for the cause. Heather placed more weight on the hope of the mending than she put value on her own life. That’s how I want to live. And die, if I must.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“But I’m afraid if it shakes more,” Smalls replied, “we won’t see standing stones to Blue Moss Hills but be crushed, buried, and beyond hope.” “Don’t forget drowned.” “Right. I had forgotten. We’re underwater here inside Forbidden Island, and if this place goes, we can add drowning to the list of grim endings. Thank you, Heather.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“What will you do when the war's over?' Kylen asked. The Pilgrim nodded to Jo. 'Probably rebel and try to start my own rival kingdom,”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“Swinging her powerful maul around, she spun and delivered a strike of astonishing force to the support beam they fought beside. The wood split as her heavy hammer tore through it, and the wall tottered and began to come down.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“May the Ancient Author bless and keep you. May the Holy Hero be your rescuer forever. May the Story find you, through every painful passage, at home with him in the end. May you delight in his love and exalt in his victory then. May you always aspire to live as a character you admire. May you know the delight of finding out that the Story isn’t mainly about you. May you know and love the truth and be brave to obey it. May you make a hard dart at the darkness with whatever light you bring, reflecting, like the moon, a light far brighter than your own. May God give you joy!”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“No,” he whispered. “I can’t see all you see, but I trust your understanding. So, when I can’t see it all, I trust your sight.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“THE QUEEN AND THE FARMER CATCH A STAR”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“That blood will bond us forever and wash away the problems of our past.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“Maybe?” Weezie frowned in mock severity. “Picket Thingstealer, bane of the does.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“It is an age of discoveries...[...]...It's as if everything old has meanings now we hadn't ever known, and everything new is like an old thing we are only just now finding.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End

“We were family then. We are family now. Won't you come home again?”
― S.D. Smith, Ember's End