“Everyone has a book inside them, it's just a matter of getting it out”

“Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”

“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.”

“Every human has a book inside them hidden, you just need to be awakened enough, to see it.”

“That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.”

“That’s the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for everyone.”