Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)

by Rebecca Yarros

It’s that last line that does me in. Laughter bubbles up through my throat and escapes. His eyes widen. “This place cuts away the bullshit and the niceties, revealing whoever you are at your core.” 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?”

So forgive me, but you’re about to be some of the bullshit that this place cuts away from me

Ground in your power and try to feel whatever it was you were feeling.”

“Should I get the wingleader?” Tairn flat-out laughs in my head. “Shut up.”

There’s nowhere in existence you could go that I wouldn’t find you, Violence.”

The ease with which I let you into my heart and didn’t get the same in return.”

Brennan just grins and opens his arms. “Welcome to the revolution, Violet.”