Eyes Turned Skyward Quotes

“I love you, and it's not the kind of love that wavers. It's the scary kind that doesn't fade. I look at you, and I see not just everything I want for my life, but everything I am, because you took the emptiest, dark pits of my soul and filled them with you. You are as much part of me as my own heart, and it doesn't beat without you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“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…”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“I’ve seen love burn someone to the ground, and I’ve seen it make sense of the ridiculous. I won’t settle for less than that kind of fire.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“I want everything, Paisley. I want your smiles, your laughs, your kisses. Yes, I want to be your friend, and more. I want to feel your arms around me at night, taste your kiss for breakfast, and I want to hear my name on your lips when I make you come apart. I want to study on the couch while you do your homework. I want to fight with you and make up with you. I want to shoulder the burdens your carrying, even the ones you still won’t tell me about, and I want…I want everything.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“Nothing in my life prepared me for how much I would love you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“They had her heart open. Right now. Doctors were touching the most precious thing in my world, and I had zero control.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“You’re it for me, and it didn’t matter if we were together or not. You’d always be it. You push me away, and I’ll still show up here looking for you because you’re all I want.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“I’m begging you. Stop pushing me away, because I’m not going anywhere. I love you, and it’s not the kind of love that wavers. It’s the scary kind that doesn’t fade. I look at you, and I see not just everything I want for my life, but everything I am, because you took the emptiest, darkest pits of my soul and filled them with you. You are as much a part of me as my own heart, and it doesn’t beat without you. You pump through my veins and you fill my lungs. I may have saved you, but you’re the one who breathes for me every day.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“That’s the thing. I’ll settle for any part you want to give me. That’s how badly I want every part of you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“I choose him. I choose him over living in Peyton’s shadow. I choose him over Will because I finally understand what it is to want someone so badly that you’re willing to risk what we’re going through this very minute. I choose him because he makes me feel alive, and amazing, and me. He makes me remember who I am. And I choose him over you because he can say my name without making me remember that you’d rather I’d died instead of Peyton.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“I looked up at him, my chest on fire with how much I loved him, and how little that word seemed to encompass this burning. “This is where you saved me.” “No. This is where you saved me.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“I love you. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me. My life started the moment I breathed into you, and I can’t think of a better use for my breath than to use it to say, ‘I love you, for the rest of our lives.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“Who the hell was I kidding? I was already on fire for her. My heart had screamed out mine the moment I carried her from the water, and hadn’t quit since.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“All of this because of one kiss. One kiss brought my world tumbling down around me. One kiss transformed me into something I hated and broke the man I loved into pieces. One kiss that I could still taste and couldn’t bring myself to regret.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“Tell me, when he touches you, kisses you, does your skin sing for him? … Does your blood rush, your lips part just thinking about his kiss? Does your body vibrate when he’s close, remembering every orgasm he can wring from you?” I crossed the friendship line, sliding my fingers along her collarbone to rest inside her shirt, above her galloping heart. Her eyes flew open, and her lips parted … “Your heart doesn’t pound like this for him, does it?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“I’d be worthy of her, not because she asked me to – she’d never ask me to change – but because she deserved the best man to hold her, understand her, love her.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“Every fucking cell in my body screams out that she belongs with me.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“Don’t do it. Don’t you dare say his name. Not now when I can still taste you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“If it’s between being numb the rest of my life or burning exquisitely for even a moment, I’ll take the burn. The best things in life are worth the burn, the risk.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“Does he treat you like a little sister in bed, too? Is that really what you want? A platonic sex life with a guy who uses you as a replacement for your older sister?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“I know you from your soul to your skin. Just being friends with you…” I flicked the stud in my tongue across my teeth, trying to find the right words. “I’ve never been more intimate with a woman, and that includes every girl I’ve ever had sex with.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“I can do this. I could be fierce. I used to be, I just had to remember how.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“you’re not a measure of the people you come from or how you grew up, but who you’ve chosen to be.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“I’m…” His eyes almost glowed in their intensity. “I’m begging you. Stop pushing me away, because I’m not going anywhere. I love you, and it’s not the kind of love that wavers. It’s the scary kind that doesn’t fade. I look at you, and I see not just everything I want for my life, but everything I am, because you took the emptiest, darkest pits of my soul and filled them with you. You are as much a part of me as my own heart, and it doesn’t beat without you. You pump through my veins and you fill my lungs. I may have saved you, but you’re the one who breathes for me every day. Do you get that? Stop pushing me away, because you make me imagine things, want things I never thought I could. Words like ‘forever,’ and ‘vows,’ and…‘family.’ I know I’m not good at that last one—”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“I love you, Paisley. I love you so much that I don’t understand how I could have taken a single breath before I found you. I came to life when you did on that beach. I don’t want to live another day that I can’t tell you that.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“She’s my whole fucking world. She’s my oxygen, my water, and my solid ground. Nothing matters without her. I cease to exist.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“Somewhere along the way, she’d become my gravity, holding me to the earth by her sheer existence.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“I loved her like the tide loved the moon, vital to sustain the life within.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“Right. I love you. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me. My life started the moment I breathed into you, and I can’t think of a better use for my breath now than to use it to say, ‘I love you,’ for the rest of our lives. I’m going to marry you, and we’re going to have gorgeous, green-eyed babies who will turn us gray with their recklessness.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“She had her days, you know? Where everything was great. Fine. I wanted to spend eternity in those days. But then she would spiral and take the rest of us down with her.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward