Top 160 Ashley Poston Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Books are not really just books at all, but doorways. They are portals into places I’ve never been and people I’ll never be.” “Sometimes the universe deals us fates that make us happy, but sometimes it simply deals us fates that make us.”

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102. “The universe sends you the things you need when you need them.”

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103. “You only live once. And if you do it right, once is all you need.”

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104. “Whenever I took a closer look at him, he was disorienting in the kind of way kaleidoscopes were, constantly moving and shifting, full of colors and shapes that shouldn’t have gone together but did in a way that made it perfect.”

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105. “Stories that tell us that we can be bold and brash and make mistakes and still come out better on the other side. Those are the kinds of stories I want to see, and read, and tel.”

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106. “Sometimes I just wanted to let my guard down, let the pieces of me fall to the ground, and know that I had someone there who could put me back together without minding the sharp bits.”

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107. “The leaves on the trees we approached were a molten gold, like an artist had taken a sunset and poured it over the forest, and the crisp smell of the coming winter floated on the autumn breeze. It was early afternoon, and the birds sang bright and loud in the treetops.”

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108. “There’s nothing like the sound of the sky rattling your bones, you know?” he once told me when I asked why he loved thunderstorms so much. “Makes you feel alive. Reminds you that there’s more to you than just skin and blood, but bones underneath. Stronger stuff. Just listen to that sky sing, buttercup.”

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109. “If you don’t fit in, fool everyone until you do.”

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110. “What’s the point if I can’t be beautiful?” I squint at him. “Are you quoting Howl’s Moving Castle?” In reply, he gives another anguished wail and flops half of himself over the side of the armrest. The towel is doing a very terrible job of covering anything up, and I gently pull it over his nether region so he won’t have to disgrace himself.”

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111. “In my experience, women with sharp tongues usually have soft lips.”

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112. “I think, as readers, we all have a comfort read, the one book that protects us in the exact ways it needs to – whether it is a romance or erotica or a thriller or a crime story or a fantasy. A book that we find ourselves in, like looking in a mirror. Oh, you, too? It will ask, as it fills that soft, hollow place in your heart that nothing else dared to touch. I think we all deserve a book like that, whatever yours is.”

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113. “I’m not just a raindrop in a pond but a comet plunged into the ocean, and I can make waves the size of skyscrapers because I’m not just here, I’m living.”

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114. “What could go wrong? The sky’s bright, the sun’s out, and there’s spring in the air – I can taste it.”

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115. “He clicked this tongue to the roof of this mouth, studying me for a moment, his eyes a shade darker than they had been before. “I think your favorite color is yellow,” he guessed, and watched as the surprise trickled across my face. “But not a bright yellow – more of a golden yellow. The color of sunflowers. That might be your favorite flower.”

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116. “There was something just so reassuring about books. They had beginnings and middles and ends, and if you didn’t like a part, you could skip to the next chapter. If someone died, you could stop on the last page before, and they’d live on forever. Happy endings were definite, evils defeated, and the good lasted forever.”

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117. “I hated that I cried when I was angry, or upset, or annoyed. I hated that I cried at the slightest flux of emotional nuance. I hated how helpless I felt. I hated how I wanted to both march up to him and give him a fistful of my thoughts and run as far away from him as I could.”

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118. “Sometimes the best heroes are the ones in your head – but that doesn’t make them any less real.”

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119. “Love is a celebration,’ ” I read, my voice wobbling, “ ’of life and death. It stays with you. It lingers, my darlings, long after I’m gone. Listen for me when the wind rushes through the trees. I love you.”

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120. “Now, what’s a pretty flower like you doing in a wood like this?”

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121. “Romance wasn’t in chocolate, it was in the gasp of breath as we came up for air. It was in the way he cradled my face, the way I traced my finger over the crescent-shaped birthmark on his collarbone. It was n the way he uttered how beautiful I was, the way it made my heart soar. It was in the way I wanted to know everything about him – his favorite songs, finally guess his favorite color.”

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122. “He hoped I asked for help because asking was not a weakness – but a strength. He hoped that I would ask more often because I would be surprised by who would come into my life if I let them.”

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123. “Books are not really just books at all, but doorways. They are portals into places I’ve never been and people I’ll never be.”

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124. “Most of the time, I try not to think about it, but sometimes grief comes in waves. It laps against the sandy beach of your soul, again and again, soft and rushing and impossible to escape.”

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125. “We were an author of love stories and an editor of romances, weaving a story about a boy who was once a little ghostly and a girl who lived with ghosts. And maybe, if we were lucky, we’d find a happily ever after, too.”

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126. “Nothing said Netflix and chill quite like an orthopedic pillow and a wineglass of Ensure.”

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127. “Weighed down by sadness – but held together, still, by.”

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128. “Robb pushed a lock of silver hair out of his face and kissed the tears off his cheeks. “A’ve nan amar, ma’alor.”

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129. “Sometimes the people you love don’t leave you with goodbyes – they just leave.”

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130. “I always thought that gardeners’ daughters couldn’t thrive where our roots didn’t grow. But maybe we were like dandelion tuffs.”

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131. “I can’t begin to express how much your book helped me. I could open it and get lost in your words, and in those moments, it felt like everything would be okay. So, thank you for giving me words when I didn’t think there were any left. I hope you never stop giving the world your words.”

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132. “That’s why I kept searching for it, heartbreak after heartbreak. it wasn’t because I needed to find out that love existed – of course, it did – but it was the hope that I’d find it.”

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133. “She said that the people who die never really leave. That we carry them with every breath we take, until the wind itself is gone.”

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134. “That worth wasn’t dependent on someone else’s love for you, or your usefulness, or what you could do for them.”

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135. “He had plans – everyone has plans, even if they don’t realize it. Even the ones who go because they think they don’t have plans. There’s always something that comes up.”

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136. “He had on a hat with a pizza design on it, and a loud floral button-down.”

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137. “Everything died, but pieces of it remained. Dad was in the wind because he breathed the same air that I breathed. Dad was a mark in history becuase he existed. He was part of my future because I still carried on.”

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138. “I wrote this book for me. So, if you didn’t really enjoy this book, that’s okay! You’ll find one that you love.”

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139. “They gave us the tools to figure out what to do when they were gone.”

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140. “I hope you find yourself in a book someday. And I hope that book lives forever.”

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141. “I began to realize that love wasn’t dead, but it wasn’t forever, either. It was something in between, a moment in time where two people existed at the exact same moment in the exact same place in the universe.”

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142. “I bought things when I was nervous. Mainly books but – I guess now I bought houseplants, too.”

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143. “IT IS SAID that the first king of Aloriya was born with the fire in his blood.”

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144. “It was candy, though even candy could be good – sweet and flavorful and exactly what you needed exactly when you needed it. But he never said as much.”

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

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146. “Sometimes the stories we need are the ones that can show us a happy ending and make us feel whole and welcome and loved.”

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147. “Because ghost stories were just love stories about here and then and now and when, about pockets of happiness and moments that resonated in places long after their era. They were stories that taught you that love was never a matter of time, but a matter of timing.”

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148. “You really are a boob guy, aren’t you?” “They’re nice,” was his response.”

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149. “Everything dies, buttercup,” he once said as we sat on the front porch, watching a storm roll in. Carver was toddling in his play pool, and Alice was gurgling on his knee. “That’s a fact. But you wanna know a secret?” And I had leaned in, so sure it was a cure for death, a way to bat it away – “Everything that dies never really goes. In little ways, it all stays.”

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150. “I was five foot two, and everything I wore was bought for comfort and not style.”

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