“A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening...”
“There is nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it.”
“There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It's not just outside, it's inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets.”
“Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds.”
“We're frightened of what makes us different.”
“Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.”