Easier said than done. In Ba Sing Se, I didn't have to worry about the Avatar, or my country. I had a normal life. [Pretty much the worst thing to get angry about was his uncle trying to set him up on dates, and even that didn't turn out so bad.]

But... If there's one thing this trip to Ember Island has taught me, it's that things with my family will never go back to how they were before, either. [He looks down the beach, in the direction of the cove where he'd burned his family's portrait only hours before.] I was stupid to think otherwise.