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He wanted to look at her like he wanted to breathe, like she was breath and he was drowning, and every moment of his not looking was a struggle towards the thing he most needed.
He would have given her anything. Everything. For nothing but the light in her velvet eyes.
“I could never marry you, Gracewood. The world—” “Forgive my language, but”—his eyes were as steady on hers as the clasp upon her wrist, his mouth suddenly full of smiles—“fuck the world. I will change it for you if I have to.”
He would have jumped from the cliffs of Morgencald for Viola Carroll.
And I’m not looking for perfect. Only for you.”
“I am not sure love unshown is really love at all. What good does caring for a person do if you’re never there when they need you?”
There you were with your wild hair, and your beloved eyes, and I thought, here is a woman I could be obsessed with until the end of my days.