In the Likely Event
Rebecca Yarros, 2023
Two people keep meeting at the worst possible moments, across a decade of deployments and near-misses, and neither can quite let go.
Feels like longing and tenderness. About love, war and time.
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What an agreement can't do: make two people stop belonging to each other.
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.Rebecca Yarros is a military spouse and mother of six; she built her career on military romance long before Fourth Wing became a phenomenon.
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Questions readers ask
- What is In the Likely Event like?
- Feels like longing and tenderness. About love, war and time.
- What should I read after In the Likely Event?
- If you liked In the Likely Event, try Dear John (Nicholas Sparks), Voyager (Diana Gabaldon) and The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger).
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Some love stories are made mostly of the time in between.
I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can’t believe that ours didn’t go on forever.
Dear John · Nicholas Sparks
The one thing he can still govern is his own body.
Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my movement through space if not time, and the obedience, however temporary, of my body to my will.
The Time Traveler's Wife · Audrey Niffenegger
Some love feels less like a shelter than a match.
Maybe this isn’t the kind of love that deserves to exist. Maybe it’s the kind that wars start over. The kind that topples empires and never leaves the world better than it found it.
The Night We Met · Abby Jimenez
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