Iris Kelly Doesn't Date Quotes

“I spent a lot of time,” Iris went on, “convincing myself I wasn’t built to last, wasn’t built for romance, for love. But maybe . . .” Tears bloomed into her eyes. “Maybe I was just built for you.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Iris Kelly Doesn't Date

“She felt her friends on either side of her, gentle hands on her back, waiting for her. Loving her. Because Iris Kelly was worth loving. And she always had been.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Iris Kelly Doesn't Date

“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

“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

“In her place was a woman whose heart felt tender and raw. A woman who was tired, so fucking tired of fighting the way Stevie Scott made her feel.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Iris Kelly Doesn't Date

“She simply was, with another disaster by her side—because Stevie was one hundred percent an adorable disaster—and it felt like that first gulp of cold water after a long hike.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Iris Kelly Doesn't Date

“Before she knew it, she was crying on the floor in a bookstore. Actually crying. Snot ran out of her nose, and she wiped it on her own shoulder, and she wasn’t sure if it was possible for her to be more pathetic.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Iris Kelly Doesn't Date

“Come with me, Iris, to New York. Come with me, live with me. I love you, okay? I am wildly, stupidly in love with you. Yes, I messed up. Yes, I chose me, but I choose you too. That's what love is right? I want both. And I know you do too.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Iris Kelly Doesn't Date

“the kind of eyes you could get lost in, drown in, and never even try to take a breath.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Iris Kelly Doesn't Date

“It's just... do you ever feel like the you you want to be isn't the person anyone else wants?"

"I am your happily ever after”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Iris Kelly Doesn't Date

“recalcitrant”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Iris Kelly Doesn't Date

“I’m not serious, Stevie. I’m just the girl you fuck.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Iris Kelly Doesn't Date

“Granted, this encounter wasn’t the pheromone-fueled interaction Iris had planned, but she still found herself intrigued. Stefania was beautiful and sexy and a complete disaster. Iris couldn’t walk away now if she tried.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Iris Kelly Doesn't Date