Eyes Turned Skyward (Flight & Glory #2)

by Rebecca Yarros

“You know how that feels, right, missing someone?” “Sure.” I’d missed Will when he’d been at West Point this last year. It was sweet longing to be near him, to talk to him and hear his voice. “It kind of feels like burning.”

He could fly away whenever he wanted—why would he stay here? I would fly away. I would soar above everything, choose what I really wanted for my future without thought for my heart’s ability to handle it. But that wasn’t my life.

You’ve always seen my loss of control, my recklessness as my biggest weakness. Maybe, just maybe, it’s my greatest asset.

I’ll be thankful I took the chance and burned.”

For once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will long to return,’”