Eyes Turned Skyward (Flight & Glory #2)

by Rebecca Yarros

“Look, I know it’s odd, and that you don’t know me. But I pulled you out of that water. I filled your lungs with my own breath, and if that doesn’t make me responsible for you, I’m not sure what does.”

“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.”

I know what you’re thinking. Eventually I’ll screw it up. I always do.

Unless you want this relationship of yours in a pretty glass case, you have to show her your cracks, your flaws. Show her that no matter what hers are, you’ll stay. Show her there’s nothing to be scared of, and she’ll let you in.”

“Yes! Mine! You don’t own it or control it. I do!” “God damn it, Paisley! You own mine! Don’t you get it? I’m in love with you, so fucking wrapped up in everything you are—that we are together—that I’m not sure I can exist anymore if you don’t.

But you have to ask yourself, if you don’t stand by her now, can you live with yourself later?”