Meet Me in the Ether Quotes

“May I? My hands were asking. May I touch you? May I devote myself to you? May I take you in my arms and mold my body to yours? May I fall in love with you even if you never do?”
― Iris Lake, Meet Me in the Ether

“The gods I was assured craved our misery if not even conspired it. Joyful men had no need of praying and worship. A miserable man would fall on his knees. A desperate one would offer his life.”
― Iris Lake, Meet Me in the Ether

“I’ve always known the contours of your existence, the form you take between the stars. You are the inception and destruction of my sky. I will always be able to recognize you, even in the abysmal darkness.”
― Iris Lake, Meet Me in the Ether

“Self-destruction is the most interesting thing we mortals do. We break ourselves one way so we don’t die from another. We cover pain with pain and then we escape in the normalcy of our suffering.”
― Iris Lake, Meet Me in the Ether

“I will not be the girl that teeters on the edge between love and abuse and finds it romantic.”
― Iris Lake, Meet Me in the Ether

“He was there everynight, to make me laugh, to make me blush, to make a girl that couldn't dream, dream of a thousand different lives with him. He was the unwavering rock to lean on the nights when breathing felt insufferable. He was the voice and I was the echo.”
― Iris Lake, Meet Me in the Ether

“He locked you up to save his kingdom. I would burn mine down to save you.”
― Iris Lake, Meet Me in the Ether

“Power is an inexhaustible source of corruption. And you, love, have way too much of it.”
― Iris Lake, Meet Me in the Ether

“Let’s pretend that you trust me and that I forgive you. Let’s stay in this room and confess all of our sins and only leave when we’re ready to be ourselves out in the world. Let’s make love until our bodies ache so we don’t feel our hearts breaking. Let’s pretend.”
― Iris Lake, Meet Me in the Ether

“Now he was looking at me again, and all I wanted was to scream at him, Stop touching me with your eyes, damn it!”
― Iris Lake, Meet Me in the Ether

“Because what do smart, selfish girls do?"
"They take care of themselves.”
― Iris Lake, Meet Me in the Ether

“I was poor in so many ways, but never with my ambition to live.”
― Iris Lake, Meet Me in the Ether

“And love, I shall think, musn't leave you hungry for love.”
― Iris Lake, Meet Me in the Ether