What is China but a people and their stories? - Gene Luen Yang

Don't you think you're trying a little too hard to hold on to the past?

Maybe, but don't you think you're trying a little too hard to run away from it?

Not everybody's past is like yours, Aang. Some of us have to run away just to... just to live.

It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.

There is no right or wrong apart from what you decide.
Who you chose to defend deserves to be defended simply because
you
chose them. You are the
Fire Lord.
What you chose, by definition, is
right.