Status Updates From The Way of an Eagle

“Meteor-like, he had flashed through her sky and
disappeared; leaving a burning, ineradicable trail behind him”

How does Ethel Dell keep on doing this?

“And she knew that with that one word he
resolutely turned his back upon the gulf that had opened between them
during those twenty months—that gulf that his love had been great
enough to bridge—and that he took her with him, bruised and broken
and storm-tossed as she was, into a very sheltered place.”

Truly I pray that marriages like this exist today.

"Tell me, if it helps you," he answered, and he spoke with the
splendid patience that twenty weary months had wrought in him. "Only
believe—before you begin—that I have forgiven you. For—before
God—it is the truth."

My goodness I’m tearing up again. We’ve barely even seen Will but Ethel Dell manages to write such a compelling character in a single chapter!!!

“And this was Love—this hunger that could never be satisfied, this
craving which would not be stifled or ignored—Love triumphant,
invincible, immortal—the thing she had striven to slay at its
birth, but which had lived on in spite of her, growing, spreading,
enveloping, till she was lost, till she was suffocated, in its
immensity. There could never be any escape for her again.”

😩😩😩

"You won't need to seek any more protectors so far as I am
concerned. You will never see me again unless the gods ordain that
you should come and find me. It isn't the way of an eagle to swoop
twice—particularly an eagle with only one wing."

These lines man 😩😩

Girl you’re always thinking the worst of him 😭

“Daisy," he said, and voice and touch alike implored her, "give him
up, dear! Give him up! You can do it if you will, if your love is
great enough. I know how infernally hard it is to do. I've done it
myself. It means tearing your very heart out. But it will be worth
it—it must be worth it—afterwards. You are bound—some time—to reap
what you have sown.”

Why am I tearing up

Okay I’m nearing the 80% mark and I’m getting a little nervous on how this circus is going to wrap up because YIKES

“God help you both; for you are going
to destroy him and yourself too.”

Cold line 🥶🥶🥶

“The realisation went through her, sharp and piercing, horribly
distinct. She had sought shelter like a frightened rabbit in the
densest cover she could find, but, crouching low, she heard the rush
of the remorseless wings above her. She knew that at any moment he
could rend her refuge to pieces and hold her at his mercy.”

😩😩😩😩😩

“So she clung to her illusion, finding comfort therein, wholly blind to
those failings in her protector which to the woman who had loved him
from her earliest girlhood were as obvious and well-nigh as precious
as his virtues.“

Wow.

“Suddenly he looked straight at her, and his eyes were alight, fierce,
glowing. But she felt a curious sense of scared relief, as if he were
behind bars,—an eagle caged, of which she need have no fear.”

*cue the salieri dropping his music notes meme*

Pause. Nearing the 50% mark, I just have to say that I’m having the time of my life with this book. To the Goodreads user that led me to this brilliant book, thank you!!

“Oh, man," he whispered
brokenly, "you don't know what it is to be despised by the one being
in the world you worship."

Nick said nothing. His lips twitched a little, that was all.”

The laugh I just let out. Oh, the irony!