Top 160 Ashley Poston Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If we’re both looking up at the same sky, how far apart can we REALLY be?”

— Ashley Poston

2. “I’m the villain of my story, and the hero.”

— Ashley Poston

3. “What I am built for is falling in love slowly, page by page, like reading a favorite book. I am built for the nearness of someone, the quirk of their lips, the sincerity of their smile, the dreams just underneath their skin. I fall in love moment by moment, collecting who they are, who they were, who they want to be, into a kaleidoscope of colors.”

— Ashley Poston

4. “I suck at being social. I think one thing and my mouth says something completely different, like I’m possessed. By a whole lot of stupid.”

— Ashley Poston

5. “I am a kaleidoscope of hope and dreams and wonder in the shape of a girl. I am not a porcelain doll. I am not empty. I am worthy. I am enough.”

— Ashley Poston

6. “There are stories that you tell and stories that tell things to you; stories that win awards and stories that win hearts. Sometimes they’re the same. Sometimes they aren’t. Sometimes the stories you want aren’t the ones you need, and the ones you need are the ones you never thought you’d like.”

— Ashley Poston

7. “She wears life like Elvis wore sequins, with no apology laced into the seams.”

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8. “Look to the stars. Aim. Ignite.”

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9. “Robb’s brow furrowed. “Screw fate. I’ll tear down the stars for you.”

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10. “I wonder if she stares at the ceiling too, counting sheep or doing what I do when I can’t sleep, namely, wondering what would’ve happened if Barbara Gordon never answered the door in The Killing Joke.”

— Ashley Poston

11. “May the stars keep you steady and the iron keep you safe.”

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12. “Electrolyte water tastes as bland as my soul feels.”

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13. “The kiss lit a million suns in between his zeroes and ones, and made him infinite.”

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14. “Or maybe it’s her look of mockery, reminding me of that day last summer when I finally realized that people weren’t nice. That no one was nice. That everyone lied, and that my heart was just a token, and this the universe was the one in the Black Nebula. The hopeless, terrible universe. The one no one wants to be in.”

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15. “Far above the crown of stars, there lay a kingdom cast in shadows until a daughter born of light drove the night away. And so the Great Dark waited a thousand turns around the sun and promised on its heart of iron to once again return. – “Origin of the Moon Goddess,” The Cantos of Light.”

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16. “My dad said that the impossible is only impossible if you don’t even try. So I want to try.”

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17. “I’ve met my doom, and it isn’t even breakfast yet.”

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18. “I am a nobody, but I’m a nobody who wants to leave the world a little brighter than when she arrived.”

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19. “You sound like a symphony of electrical currents,” she explained, and began to hum, as if in tune with it, and grabbed his hand to dance.”

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20. “And may the force be with those chimichangas.”

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21. “Jax had realized, in the moments he though Robb would bleed out in the cargo bay, that he wanted to fly into those eyes. he wanted to get lost in them. Just once. If they just opened one more time.”

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22. “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.”

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23. “It’s also awkward to be so short you can see all the way up into someone’s cerebral cortex, but welcome to my life.”

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24. “I think sometimes the stories we need are the ones about taking the hobbits to Isengard and dog-human dudes with space heelies and trashy King Arthurs and gay ice-skating animes and Zuko redemption arcs and space princesses with found families and galaxies far, far away. We need those stories, too. Stories that tell us that we can be bold and brash and make mistakes and still come out better on the other side.”

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25. “Stop it. You are trusting. You love your fans. You’re cool and funny and chill. You are Jennifer Lawerence.“- Darian.”

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26. “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.”

— Ashley Poston

27. “Even self-rescuing princesses sometimes feel like no one.”

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28. “Starlight, star bright, you can be anyone you want to be tonight.”

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29. “Ever since I can remember, my fingers have itched to make things. To write. I have filled journals, finished fanfics, escaped again and again into the pages of someone else’s life.”

— Ashley Poston

30. “Do I not meet your fangirl expectation?”

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31. “And if we’re both looking up at the same sky, how far apart can we REALLY be? What were the odds of us being put on the same slab of rock in this huge universe?”

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32. “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.”

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33. “Di looked annoyed. “No, I am here to tour the palace.” “Sarcasm, not the time.” “Sorry, the literary device is still new to me.”

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34. “Because you’re right; you aren’t Carmindor. You’re Amara. And you know why you are? Because you’ve taken a crappy subplot and managed to live through it, and you are selfless and you’re brave.”

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35. “Because I will follow you anywhere, to the ends of the galaxy, if I have to. I want to exist where you exist, and that is enough.”

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36. “C’mon Bilbo, where’s your sense of adventure?”

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37. “She’s like a Dalek with a blacklist. Absolutely relentless.”

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38. “We might all be different – we may ship different things or be in different fandoms – but if I learned anything from twenty-three days in a too-blue uniform playing a character I thought I could never be, it’s that when we become those characters, pieces of ourselves light up like glow sticks in the night. They shine. We shine. Together. And even when some of us fall to different universes, those lights never go out.”

— Ashley Poston

39. “For all the food lovers out there who burn popcorn in the microwave: we’d be too strong if we could cook, too.”

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40. “But if I never go in, I’ll never find out. And I’m tried of being afraid of things I can’t control.”

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41. “My dad said that anyone could be Carmindor,” she says. “That anyone can be Amara. That we have bits and pieces of them inside us. We just have to shine them off and let them glow.”

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42. “I miss parts of it. I don’t miss the actual place. That’s never as good as you remember it.”

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43. “It isn’t the kind of kiss to end a universe of possibilities. It’s the exact opposite. It’s the kind of kiss that creates them.”

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44. “You don’t put a soap opera star in charge of an entire galaxy.”

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45. “Would Chris Pine condescend to judge a costume contest? Would Chris Evans? Chris Hemsworth?”

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46. “Maybe everything does die – but maybe, somehow, everything that dies someday comes back.”

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47. “Home wasn’t always warm, and wasn’t always safe, but home was hers. And it was not this prison.”

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48. “There are dark sides of every fandom. The pockets filled with a certain kind of nostalgia where everything is sacred and shouldn’t be tampered with. Where new things are always trash, or judged too harshly, or not up to some unknown holy standard. Where new people with new ideas can’t touch an old sinking ship even if it’ll repair it – make it better than before.”

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49. “The Solani have a saying,” he said, his voice soft. “Al gat ha astri ke’eto. It means something like ‘Until the next star shines on you’ – until we meet again. So, Al gat ha astri ke’eto, ma’alor.”

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50. “He takes my hand and steps closer, so close my bones are jittery. He smells like the Magic Pumpkin and fresh deodorant and cinnamon, and it’s a scent I want burned into my memory. I want it on my clothes. I want his gaze, the way he looks at me – like I’m the last star in the night sky and the first one at dusk – branded on my heart.”

— Ashley Poston