Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)

by Rebecca Yarros

Your mind already knows the answer, so just calm down and let it remember.

Fear can’t rule my body.

But I will not run. I wouldn’t be standing here if I’d quit every time something seemed impossible to overcome.

Don’t borrow tomorrow’s trouble.

But you’ve already made it this far. Ahh, there she is, the little voice that’s been riding my shoulder lately, daring to give me hope that I might actually survive Presentation.

“Violet!” Dain reaches me, his smile wide as he cups my face. “You kept both of them!”

Booooo i dont like this guy.

I repeat his words from this summer. “Isn’t that what you said to me? Is this who you really are at your core? Someone so enamored with rules that he doesn’t know when to bend or break them for someone he cares about? Someone so focused on the least I’m capable of doing, he can’t believe I can do so much more?”

LETS FREAKING GO VIOLET!!!!TELL THAT HOW OFF

“The reason we’ll never be anything more than friends isn’t because of your rules. It’s because you have no faith in me. Even now, when I’ve survived against all odds and bonded not just one dragon but two, you still think I won’t make it. So forgive me, but you’re about to be some of the bullshit that this place cuts away from me.” I move to the side and march past him through the tunnel, forcing air through my lungs.

YES BROOOOOOOOOOOO

“But keeping me safe is keeping me from growing, too.”

But if we let fear kill whatever this is between us, then we don’t deserve it.”

“I know. I’m so wildly in love with you that I can’t imagine what my life would even look like without you in it.

Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.”