26 Quotes by Emily Skrutskie

Keep flying,” I whisper hoarsely, the roar of the air around us stifling the words as they leave my mouth. “No matter what, keep flying.

This is a horrible idea,” I say with a smile. “Go.

But through all of this, through every part of this mess, the only thing that’s ever mattered is Gal. There’s only one side that has my allegiance. It’s not Archon, which fell and fled, or Umber, which conquered and reshaped. It’s not the past. It’s that possibility of a better future. It’s only ever been Gal.

You’re at the top of the world – you’re the most powerful thing on the sea when you’re serving under her – but there’s a cost. There’s always a cost.

I know what it’s like to walk down that path, feeling as if you have no other route. I know how hard it is to pull yourself back from it once that instinct is ingrained. And I know how easy it is to give in to it when you tell yourself it’s the only way to survive.

I can’t lose him, but somehow it feels like I already have.

Did it ever occur to you that your neck might matter to me at least as much as mine? Actually, probably more than mine? – Swift, to Cas.

He’s every inch his mother’s son now, and if his hands were around my neck, he’d squeeze.