“
          Can't fight the moment of truth in your lies.
          ”
          ”
         
        Goo Goo Dolls
       
        
          “
          And I don't want the world to see me, 
Cause I don't think that they'd understand.
When everything's made to be broken, 
I just want you to know who I am.
          ”
          ”
         
        Goo Goo Dolls
       
        
          “
          And all I can taste is this moment 
And all I can breathe is your life 
Cause sooner or later it's over 
I just don't want to miss you tonight
And I don't want the world to see me 
Cause I don't think that they'd understand 
When everything's made to be broken 
I just want you to know who I am
this song remind me of die for me at sometimes on in the chapter :)
          ”
          ”
         
        Amy Plum (Die for Me (Revenants, #1))
       
        
          “
          What you feel is what you are and what you are is beautiful.
          ”
          ”
         
        Goo Goo Dolls
       
        
          “
          You're the only one I ever believe in, the answer that could never be found.
          ”
          ”
         
        Goo Goo Dolls
       
        
          “
          Goo Goo Dolls—“Iris
          ”
          ”
         
        Chloe Walsh (Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1))
       
        
          “
          Coldplay—“Yellow” Guns N’ Roses—“Sweet Child O’ Mine” Goo Goo Dolls—“Iris” The Fureys—“When You Were Sweet Sixteen” Howie Day—“Collide” The Offspring—“Want You Bad” Busted—“Fall at Your Feet” Aerosmith—“Crazy
          ”
          ”
         
        Chloe Walsh (Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1))
       
        
          “
          What you see is what you are and what you are is beautiful.
          ”
          ”
         
        Goo Goo Dolls
       
        
          “
          Innocence is never lost when you feel it pounding in your heart.
          ”
          ”
         
        Goo Goo Dolls (Goo Goo Dolls - Collection)
       
        
          “
          Half-way into the stuck substance of sky
clay-white dome of the day-moon pokes...
Unkempt and in rags as I am
	my girl's dressed all in dots:
	in skirts and flowery blouses
		I spin her round
	and tie bows in little doll shoes
		to match her tails 
	
	asking even dogs how she looks—
		stupidly, doting on her…. 
By amber candlelit warmth, I played
	cards in your sisters’ ambience:
	it was like you said: 
		the warmth of their smiles
	charmed me, their enfolding 
		talk, and eyes that wink…. 
A field of grass lay half-way
	between boughs and the sky
	I contemplate the clouds…
	solid and amassed, clouds
		topple on top of clouds
	clouds up into peaks culminate
		and yet are only clouds
	dissolving to a shroud
		and shadow in the sky…. 
Shh!— past sapling fleets and swift trunks
	she sprints quickly on feet and calves 
	and finds me where I lounge, 
		painting clouds— 
	
	in her glass head radiant 
		eyes like blue-glass shine 
	blushing color bleeds
		lustrous through her cheeks 
	
	to hover and float, floating 
		 just beneath the skin…. 
On my second helping of leek- 
	and-potato stew, ladled
	 like melting goo in my bowl—
	I watched you, bobbing,
		in the solving resolve of 
	their womb-like steadiness,
		cooing and aspiring…. 
Insulating sun lushens in the grass—
already afternoon shadows long out….
Root-grip to root-grip ahead 
	I mark twists in the trail
	
	by way of the young-girl 
		bulbs of her legs
	the deep churning spread
		of her waist
	swimming in my head and
		in my head quietly drowning….
Harvest-time’s swelling our baskets—
	spring in the fruiting grove… 
 
	with her mouth stained red
		in seeded-berries
	and those cheeks just-flushed
		in blood, I'll pounce
	high on that raised
		bounce of her waist….
          ”
          ”
         
        Mark Kaplon
       
        
          “
          Jealous—Labrinth when the party’s over—Billie Eilish White Rabbit—Jefferson Airplane Piano Man—Billy Joel Iris—The Goo Goo Dolls To Build a Home—The Cinematic Orchestra The Good Side—Troye Sivan Nevermind—Dennis Lloyd What It’s Like—Everlast Hi-Lo (Hollow)—Bishop Briggs bury a friend—Billie Eilish Sorry—Halsey
          ”
          ”
         
        Danielle Lori (The Maddest Obsession (Made, #2))
       
        
          “
          The Goo Goo Dolls blasted through the speakers. “‘Iris’?
          ”
          ”
         
        Chloe Walsh (Saving 6 (Boys of Tommen, #3))
       
        
          “
          Songs that felt like Wyatt: “Iris” by Goo Goo Dolls “A Murder of One” by Counting Crows “Take It Easy on Me” by Little River Band “Hold You in My Arms” by Ray LaMontagne “Wild Horses” by The Rolling Stones “Thinking Out Loud” by Ed Sheeran “Yellow” by Coldplay Songs that took me to the beach: “Watermelon Sugar” by Harry Styles “Sunshine on My Shoulders” by John Denver “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” by The Beach Boys Songs to make Sam cry: “Who Knew” by Pink “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus “1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back” by Olivia Rodrigo “So Far Away” by Carole King “Romeo and Juliet” by Dire Straits “Stay” by Rihanna “Sam, I Am” by Missy McGee
          ”
          ”
         
        Annabel Monaghan (Same Time Next Summer)
       
        
          “
          What are we talking about in 2001? A Tuesday morning with a crystalline sky. American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles crashes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175, also from Boston to Los Angeles, crashes into the South Tower at 9:03. American Airlines Flight 77 from Washington Dulles to Los Angeles hits the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m. And at 10:03 a.m., United Flight 93 from Newark to San Francisco crashes in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. There are 2,996 fatalities. The country is stunned and grief-stricken. We have been attacked on our own soil for the first time since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941. A man in a navy-blue summer-weight suit launches himself from a 103rd-floor window. An El Salvadoran line chef running late for his prep shift at Windows on the World watches the sky turn to fire and the top of the building—six floors beneath the kitchen where he works—explode. Cantor Fitzgerald. President Bush in a bunker. The pregnant widow of a brave man who says, “Let’s roll.” The plane that went down in Pennsylvania was headed for the Capitol Building. The world says, America was attacked. America says, New York was attacked. New York says, Downtown was attacked. There’s a televised benefit concert, America: A Tribute to Heroes. The Goo Goo Dolls and Limp Bizkit sing “Wish You Were Here.” Voicemail messages from the dead. First responders running up the stairs while civilians run down. Flyers plastered across Manhattan: MISSING. The date—chosen by the terrorists because of the bluebird weather—has an eerie significance: 9/11. Though we will all come to call it Nine Eleven
          ”
          ”
         
        Elin Hilderbrand (28 Summers)
       
        
          “
          as I listened to the Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris,” I found myself considering something I’d never given much thought to before. The future.
          ”
          ”
         
        Chloe Walsh (Redeeming 6 (Boys of Tommen, #4))
       
        
          “
          Coldplay—“Yellow” Guns N’ Roses—“Sweet Child O’ Mine” Goo Goo Dolls—“Iris” The Fureys—“When You Were Sweet Sixteen” Howie Day—“Collide” The Offspring—“Want You Bad” Busted—“Fall at Your Feet” Aerosmith—“Crazy” Counting Crows—“Colorblind” David Gray—“This Year’s Love” Bon Jovi—“In These Arms” Westlife—“World of Our Own” Eagle-Eye Cherry—“Save Tonight” Metallica—“Tuesday’s Gone” Snow Patrol—“Run” The Verve—“Lucky Man” HIM—“Wicked Game” The La’s—“There She Goes
          ”
          ”
         
        Chloe Walsh (Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1))
       
        
          “
          Coldplay—“Yellow” Guns N’ Roses—“Sweet Child O’ Mine” Goo Goo Dolls—“Iris” The Fureys—“When You Were Sweet Sixteen” Howie Day—“Collide” The Offspring—“Want You Bad” Busted—“Fall at Your Feet” Aerosmith—“Crazy” Counting Crows—“Colorblind” David Gray—“This Year’s Love” Bon Jovi—“In These Arms” Westlife—“World of Our Own” Eagle-Eye Cherry—“Save Tonight” Metallica—“Tuesday’s Gone” Snow Patrol—“Run” The Verve—“Lucky Man” HIM—“Wicked Game” The La’s—“There She Goes” These were love songs. These were all love songs.
          ”
          ”
         
        Chloe Walsh (Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1))
       
        
          “
          Coldplay—“Yellow” Guns N’ Roses—“Sweet Child O’ Mine” Goo Goo Dolls—“Iris” The Fureys—“When You Were Sweet Sixteen” Howie Day—“Collide” The Offspring—“Want You Bad” Busted—“Fall at Your Feet” Aerosmith—“Crazy” Counting Crows—“Colorblind” David Gray—“This Year’s Love” Bon Jovi—“In These Arms” Westlife—“World of Our Own” Eagle-Eye Cherry—“Save Tonight” Metallica—“Tuesday’s Gone” Snow Patrol—“Run” The Verve—“Lucky Man” HIM—“Wicked Game” The La’s—“There She Goes” These
          ”
          ”
         
        Chloe Walsh (Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1))
       
        
          “
          Name"
And even though the moment passed me by
I still can't turn away
'Cause all the dreams you never thought you'd lose
Get tossed along the way
And letters that you never meant to send
Get lost or thrown away
And now we're grown-up orphans
That never knew their names
We don't belong to no one, that's a shame
You could hide beside me
Maybe for a while
And I won't tell no one your name
And I won't tell 'em your name
And scars are souvenirs you never lose
The past is never far
And did you lose yourself somewhere out there?
Did you get to be a star?
And don't it make you sad to know that life
Is more than who we are?
You grew up way too fast
And now there's nothing to believe
Then reruns all become our history
A tired song keeps playing on a tired radio
And I won't tell no one your name
And I won't tell 'em your name
And I won't tell 'em your name
Hmm, mmm-hmm
And I won't tell 'em your name
Oh!
I think about you all the time
But I don't need the same
It's lonely where you are, come back down
And I won't tell 'em your name
Good Good Dolls, A Boy Named Goo (1995)
          ”
          ”
         
        Goo Goo Dolls (Boy Named Goo, A)