113 Quotes by Ashley Poston

Love isn’t like the grand romantic gestures you see in the movie. It isn’t a kiss and happily ever after, no matter how much I’d like it to be. It’s late night texts and tired calls after a long day on location, and heated arguments that end in 3 a.m. Facetimes apologizing to each other. It involves a lot of missing what other couples have-normalcy.

Where there was celebration, there was food, and where there was food, there was my happy place.

I promise you on iron and stars.

But the way she pressed her forehead against his, and opened her golden-brown eyes, and looked into his as though he was the sun her life orbited around, stopped him from ever saying as much. So he simply stood, his forehead pressed against hers, looking into the face he knew better than his own circuitry--and THAT he had blueprints for.

Then he shoved his hand into the console, wrapped his fingers around the hard drive, and pulled. The program retaliated, digging into his mainframe, clawing him apart. There was no pain.But the moment before he crushed the starship's hard drive, not long enough by any quantifiable standards, he knew he would miss Ana.He would miss her more than iron and stars.

He died," she whispered. "I saw him die."Di smiled sadly. "I will always come back to you."And with all his iron heart, he believed it.

She squeezed his hands tightly, even though he couldn't feel it. "I'll always come back for you," she whispered, reaching up on her tiptoes to press her forehead against his cool metal one. "I promise you on iron and stars.

Ana, I am not worth--""I need to go see the captain," she excused herself, and hurried up the flight of stairs to the main level.Ana, I am not worth the trouble, he was going to say.What did she have to do to prove to him that he was worth any price?

Because Ana meant something. He felt it. Deep, burning, dawning like a sunrise. Ana meant something and he was not sure what to call it. But it was something, and it was expanding. It was a light.