S.D. Smith > Quotes

“You can choose what you believe, Shuffler, but you can’t change what’s true.”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

“I regret many things I’ve done,” he said, “but most of all I regret those moments when I said to Fear, ‘You are my master.”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

“All of life is a battle against fear. We fight it on one front, and it sneaks around to our flank.” He paused, looked kindly at her. “Yes, Father. I understand.” “I regret many things I’ve done,” he said, “but most of all I regret those moments when I said to Fear, ‘You are my master.”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

“The Green Ember burns; the seed of the New World smolders. Healing is on the horizon, but a fire comes first. Bear the flame.”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

“It's better to live as you will want to have lived, rather than spend your time worrying about the end. You are right here in your story. Don't skip ahead”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Falls

“What do I always tell you? ‘ Not enough salt is an in-salt,’ and ‘Too much salt is an as-salt!”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

“Growing up is terribly wonderful. But often it’s also wonderfully terrible.”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

“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

“I love a happy ending... because I need hope.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Falls

“What is it, Father?” Picket asked as Mother tenderly took Jacks from him. “It’s only that, when you’re older, you hand out wisdom to your children like you know everything, but it is sometimes hard to follow your own advice.”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

“If you aren’t angry about the wicked things happening in the world all around, then you don’t have a soul.” There”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

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

“We don’t have to win the war today, sir,” Heather said. She hoped she looked braver than she felt. “We only have to win the next battle.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Falls

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

“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

“This is a place where people make and are made. You are what you do. Choose wisely, young Picket. Choose wisely, brave Heather. Understand?”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

“I was born at a very early age.”
― S.D. Smith, Mooses with Bazookas: And Other Stories Children Should Never Read

“She was seeing the other side of the tragedy, the world that lived, for now, only in the hopeful hearts of those who, though not seeing, saw.”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

“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

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

“Growing up is terribly wonderful. But often it’s also wonderfully terrible. Ha, a riddle of words amounting to nothing. A stuttering cleverism that falls as short as my feeble steps. But this is true. A teacher could become rich if he ever perfected the art of helping mature students unlearn many awful things. Enjoy your innocence, my dear. Even if it only lasts the day.”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

“But no cause is greater than my love for you. I fight because you are in my heart.”
― S.D. Smith, Ember Falls

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

“Picket,” he said quietly, “stay angry. It’s okay if it’s at me, for now. If you aren’t angry about the wicked things happening in the world all around, then you don’t have a soul.”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

“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

“How many times in the last two days had she believed she was at the end of her strength, only to somehow find more?”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

“My place beside you
my blood for yours
til the green ember rises
or the end of the world.”
― S.D. Smith

“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

“Was Father getting sadder, or was she just getting old enough to see it?”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

“We may find pleasure in our duty, but our duty is not our own pleasure.”
― S.D. Smith, The Black Star of Kingston