In the Likely Event Quotes

“There hasn’t been a day I haven’t thought of you, missed you, wanted you, loved you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“He was a reader? This guy just kept getting hotter.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“It was impossible to give away a heart I’d never gotten back in the first place.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“She’s worse than your ex,” Torres mumbled. “She’s your what-if.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“And in the seconds it took for him to reach me, I realized it didn’t matter which version of him I was getting. I was inextricably linked to every single one of them.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“Ten years had passed since we’d met on a very different tarmac, and the sight of her still left me speechless.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“Every second I’ve had with you is a gift I’ve never deserved,”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“But the way I see it, there are all kinds of wars. Some are just more visible than others.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“Think about what it could be like if we became more than a possibility.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“I was forever kept in his orbit, allowed to glimpse the damage I knew lingered beneath his surface, but condemned to watch helplessly from afar as he collected scars.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“I must have dreamed of you a million times,”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“The woman was a meteor, a shooting star capable of granting impossible wishes or destroying life as I knew it.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“He wasn’t mine. I wasn’t his. That was the agreement we’d made.
And yet he was always mine.
I was always his.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“You’re all I want.” He cupped the back of my neck. “It doesn’t matter how far I go or how long I’m away. I dream about you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“We’d proved to be the magnets that fate could never quit playing with.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“Izzy, you’re the one good, untainted thing in my life. You are the only peace I know.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“Shit,” he swore, ripping his mouth from mine once we were both panting, and resting his forehead against mine.
“Not what you expected?” …
“Just the opposite.” He pressed a kiss to my jaw, then my throat, before returning to my lips. “Everything I expected and so much more. I fucking knew it would be like this with you.”
“Chemistry,” I muttered, but that wasn’t the word ticking the edges of my mind. Fate. There was no other way to explain this, to explain us.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“Because nothing worth having is easy.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“If no one’s trying to kill you here, then that means I’m doing my job over there. That’s how I choose to look at it, how I have to look at it.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“Graham’s tone. “She’s not my ex.” We never got to that point. “And wipe the smirk off your face.” “She’s worse than your ex,” Torres mumbled. “She’s your what-if.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“Because it didn’t matter how much I liked him. I would rather spend a week with you than a lifetime with him. That wasn’t fair to either of us, you know?”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“You going to hand her over to Jenkins?” Torres asked, leaning against the wall next to me. “Every instinct tells me not to,” I said quietly. “But at least he’d treat her as just another detail.” “Just another mission.” Torres nodded. “Solid point.” Jenkins wouldn’t spare a single glance for her eyes, her smile, her curves. He’d be 100 percent focused. “She’ll be safer with me.” “Because you’re in love with her?” Torres questioned. I shook my head. “Because Jenkins isn’t willing to die for her.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“Forget awkward. This felt like coming home.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“I say yes. Let’s take our shot. Let’s go slow or move fast. Let’s do everything we talked about and dream up new stuff. I don’t care where we live or what we do, as long as I get to do it with you. I love you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“The only woman I’d ever loved was here—in a damned war zone—and she was wearing another man’s ring.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“I didn’t know what this new future looked like, but I knew it was ours. And that was everything.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“She’ll be safer with me.” “Because you’re in love with her?” Torres questioned. I shook my head. “Because Jenkins isn’t willing to die for her.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“That's what Nate was to me. As far away as a lifetime and as close as yesterday, as near as twelve inches.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“Never apologize for doing what you need to.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“Fall in Maine was my favorite time of year.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event