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“Romance was nothing but brain chemicals and some pretty words, a nice setting. That’s all it was. A fiction brains told to hearts.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Iris Kelly Doesn't Date

“Stevie didn't say anything. Couldn't. She didn't even remember getting down the steps, but suddenly she was standing in front of Iris, breathing the same autumn air, her ginger and citrus scent like a drug, and the only thing Stevie could do was stare at her, starving for her face, her mouth, that blue freckle right under her left eye.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Iris Kelly Doesn't Date

“She didn’t scream or yell. She never had in all the time Delilah had known her, but Christ, that woman could spit out an invective like no one else, her tone always measured and cold, which, honestly, made everything worse.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“If Stevie had a brand, it was an underwhelming amalgam of anxiety and childish dreams she couldn’t seem to relinquish”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Iris Kelly Doesn't Date