Find Me Between the Stars Quotes

“My girl,” he said, “I don’t care how long I’ll have to wait. A hundred years, a thousand years, a chance to find you in another life. Time does not apply to us. Because no matter how many times we’ll fall in love with other people, or how far apart we’ll be in the Cosmos, I know it in my soul, one day, we’ll find each other between the stars. I will be your last love. And you will be mine.”
― Iris Lake, Find Me Between the Stars

“What a strange, jarring thing it was to be needed so vastly, to know that you could break someone irreversibly and that they would let you, because they’d rather be broken by your hands than not be touched by you at all.”
― Iris Lake, Find Me Between the Stars

“Can you love me truly? Can you love me even when I’m cruel and wicked and violent? Can you love me even when I’m small and fearful and tender? Can you love me when I hate myself? Can you?”
― Iris Lake, Find Me Between the Stars

“I’d never realized how fearful of an act it was, to love someone so absolutely that their physicality felt frail and watery to you, something that could simply slip between your fingers and be lost forever.”
― Iris Lake, Find Me Between the Stars

“Are you a hero or an idiot?”
I chuckled, shaking my head. “A bit of both.”
“A lover then,” she sighed.”
― Iris Lake, Find Me Between the Stars

“A walking vice of a man, that was what he was. Looking at him was as much painful as it was addictive.”
― Iris Lake, Find Me Between the Stars

“The silence was perhaps the very definition of us. We would get enthralled in the clutches of an arbitrary, impalpable almost. An almost kiss. An almost truth. An almost surrender. We were never nothing, never something. We were ever stuck in a lethargic, amorphous in-between. Until all the unsaid things transformed into misshapen interpretations of ourselves. A severe interruption between who we were and who we could have been. Until the silence became an atrocity. Something unbeatable and grotesque. And we would have to turn away from it, so we didn’t have to look at what we’d done.”
― Iris Lake, Find Me Between the Stars

“He locked you up to save his kingdom. I'd burn mine down to save you.”
― Iris Lake, Find Me Between the Stars

“I always thought abuse hurt the perpetrator as much as the victim. You could heal from the things that were done to you, but the things you did were irreversible, they transformed you completely.”
― Iris Lake, Find Me Between the Stars

“I knew then, I loved her. Not for the other lives we’ve lived, for the other times we’ve loved, but for this one, this version of herself that made me want to be here, in the so very expansive and daunting now. I loved her, suspended in eternity.”
― Iris Lake, Find Me Between the Stars

“I'd asked him to make me a weapon, and that was how I felt in his hands; an iron girl, a bullet, a blade. He was fire and he was smelting me.”
― Iris Lake, Find Me Between the Stars

“I really thought I could be strong in this life. That I could let you go. That I wouldn’t fall in love with you. Gods, look at me. I’m not falling. I’m capitulating to you.”
― Iris Lake, Find Me Between the Stars

“I always thought I would have to change myself wholly to be accepted. But then you came along, and you made me realize that I don’t have to change or be perfect to be loved. I just have to want to be better. So, Orion, see me as I am now, and tell me. Can you love me truly? Can you love me even when I’m cruel and wicked and violent? Can you love me even when I’m small and fearful and tender? Can you love me when I hate myself? Can you?”
― Iris Lake, Find Me Between the Stars

“I really like doing nothing with you, Orion. There aren’t many people you can do nothing with, you know.”
― Iris Lake, Find Me Between the Stars