Rebecca Yarros > Quotes

“Stay the hell away from Xaden Riorson.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“I need to know you’ll be here. That no matter what happens, you’ll come back so we can talk it out or fight it out.” His gaze drops to my mouth, then skims over my features. My heart clenches, and I slide my hand along his chest, around his ribs, to his back, and then I hold on.
“Done.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Just in the wrong place at the wrong time, baby. But I guess it led me to you, so it’s more like the right place at the right time.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Full Measures

“You are not attracted to toxic men, I remind myself, and yet, here I am, getting all attracted”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“The reason we’ll never be anything more than friends isn’t because of your rules. It’s because you have no faith in me. Even now, when I’ve survived against all odds and bonded not just one dragon but two, you still think I won’t make it. So forgive me, but you’re about to be some of the bullshit that this place cuts away from me.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“We’re taking it slow until you say so, because I can’t bear to hear a ‘no’ from you. But here’s your only warning: I’m going to chase the fuck out of you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Full Measures

“I hold up my middle finger and keep my eyes forward. Not that I don't like Liam, but I'm still pissed at Xaden for assigning him.

Liam snorts and grins, flashing his dimple. 'And now he's glaring. Tell me, is it fun pissing off the most powerful rider in the quadrant?'

'You could try it yourself and find out,' I suggest, opening my notebook to the next empty page. I can't turn around. I won't. Wanting Xaden is fine. It has to be. Indulging the impulses it gives me? That's asinine.

'That's going to be a no from me.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Don't you get it? You don't have to beg me for anything. I'm already yours.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Full Measures

“The hardest battles - the most meaningful ones - they're fought against ourselves. Against our own fears, our own weaknesses, our own shattered expectations of what we thought this life would be.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Wilder

“Try not to die.'

'Working on it.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Home. Gods, he tastes like home.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“There’s a warning, a sound your heart makes the first time it realizes it’s no longer safe with the person you trusted.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Ditch the books. Dad can’t save you. He tried. I tried. Decide, Violet. Are you going to die a scribe? Or live as a rider?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Oh gods, just stop flirting and fuck already,” Ridoc says. Every head slowly turns in his direction. “I said that out loud, didn’t I?” he asks me in a hushed whisper. “Oh yeah, you did,” I reply, patting him on his back. “Garrick’s going to blow you off the mat.” “Now that I might enjoy, depending on the method he chooses—” Ridoc winces. “I’m going to stop talking now.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“Don’t let go,” she whispered. Her hands were still between us, but she wasn’t pushing me away, they were simply resting on my pecs. If anything, she leaned in. “I’d forgotten what this felt like.”
“Being hugged?” My voice was sandpaper-rough.
“Being held together.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“What did you want to be when you grew up?' I ask, just to keep the conversation going.

'Alive.' He shrugs.

Well, that's... something.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“He tasted like sin and
heaven, all in one man.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Full Measures

“He’s tall, with windblown black hair and dark brows. The line of his jaw is strong and covered by warm tawny skin and dark stubble, and when he folds his arms across his torso, the muscles in his chest and arms ripple, moving in a way that makes me swallow. And his eyes… His eyes are the shade of gold-flecked onyx. The contrast is startling, jaw-dropping even—everything about him is. His features are so harsh that they look carved, and yet they’re astonishingly perfect, like an artist worked a lifetime sculpting him, and at least a year of that was spent on his mouth. He’s the most exquisite man I’ve ever seen.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“help her, my love, I’m afraid our daughter has atrocious taste in men.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“I lift my flight goggles as Tairn walks off with Sgaeyl, their tails swishing in rhythm. It’s a little thing, but it makes me smile.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“I can’t help it. I smile. This brilliant fucking woman is mine.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Don't ever put your life at risk over something as trivial as talking to me again.' It's as low as a growl against my ear, sending a shiver down my spine.

'Next year is going to be so much fun,' I tease, walking forward and lacing my fingers with his so her follows.

'Liam will be here next year to make sure you're not doing asinine things,' he mutters.

'You're going to love getting his letters.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Garrick Tavis. Xaden Riorson.” Captain Fitzgibbons’s voice carries over the formation as he reads from the death roll. “Well, this is awkward,” Xaden calls out. And every head in the courtyard turns our direction.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“You’ll feel the moment when you’ll know that there’s nothing to leave. And it might break your heart, but when you feel it, you fly. Promise me you’ll fly.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Because Andarna will happily roast some scribes if they’re acting like assholes.” “Gladly,” she chimes in gleefully. “No,” Tairn rebukes. “Don’t encourage her.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“There's nowhere in existence you could go that I wouldn't find you, Violence.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Tell me what you're thinking.'

I wind my arms around his neck. 'I was thinking you are exactly as I predicted the first time you took me in my room.'

'Oh yeah?' He draws back, curiosity sparking in his eyes. 'And what exactly was that?'

'A very dangerous addiction.' My gaze skims over the silver line of his scar, the thick lashes so many women would kill for, and over the bump in his nose to that perfectly sculped mouth. I've already told him that I love him, so it's not like I'm keeping secrets over here. Hell, compared to him, I'm an open book. 'Impossible to sate.'

His eyes darken. 'I'm going to keep you,' he promises, just like he did last night. Or was it this morning? 'You're mine, Violet.'

I lift my chin. 'Only if you're mine.'

'I've been yours for longer than you could ever imagine.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“You still love me.”
“Every fucking second I breathe. I will love you the rest of my life, December Howard, whether or not you’re around to witness it.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Full Measures

“When are you going to understand that’s where life begins? Right at the edge of that fear.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Wilder

“I’d rather be great for a few people than be mediocre for a bunch.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter