Top 160 Ashley Poston Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Sometimes the best heroes are the ones in your head – but that doesn’t make them any less real.”

— Ashley Poston

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

— Ashley Poston

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

— Ashley Poston

104. “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.”

— Ashley Poston

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

— Ashley Poston

106. “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.”

— Ashley Poston

107. “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.”

— Ashley Poston

108. “Even though Mom is gone, she’s still in every word of my story, because hers lives on in me.”

— Ashley Poston

109. “You are who you are, and you like what you like. You are you, and that’s a lovely person to be.”

— Ashley Poston

110. “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.”

— Ashley Poston

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

— Ashley Poston

112. “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.”

— Ashley Poston

113. “Because music was a heartbeat, too, in its own way, and death wasn’t a send-off without some good tunes.”

— Ashley Poston

114. “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.”

— Ashley Poston

115. “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.”

— Ashley Poston

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.”

— Ashley Poston

117. “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.”

— Ashley Poston

118. “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.”

— Ashley Poston

119. “Everything had its place. He was a bullet journal guy, and I was a sticky note kind of girl.”

— Ashley Poston

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

— Ashley Poston

121. “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.”

— Ashley Poston

122. “Your aura is very gray today.” “Earl or Dorian?”

— Ashley Poston

123. “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.”

— Ashley Poston

124. “If I was going to do something, I didn’t want to inconvenience anyone else.”

— Ashley Poston

125. “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.”

— Ashley Poston

126. “Sometimes the universe deals us fates that make us happy, but sometimes it simply deals us fates that make us.”

— Ashley Poston

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

— Ashley Poston

128. “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.”

— Ashley Poston

129. “I wanted to drink all six-foot-whatever of him in like one of those stupidly large cowboy-boot beer glasses at roadside bars.”

— Ashley Poston

130. “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.”

— Ashley Poston

131. “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.”

— Ashley Poston

132. “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.”

— Ashley Poston

133. “I know you’ll write our story the way it was meant to be told.” “I – I don’t think I could – ” “Of course you can,” she replied. “It might not be in one book. It might be in five or ten. It might be little bits of all of us scattered throughout your stories. But I know you’ll write us, however messy we are, and it’ll be good.”

— Ashley Poston

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

— Ashley Poston

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

— Ashley Poston

136. “We were nine, and therefore invincible.”

— Ashley Poston

137. “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.”

— Ashley Poston

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

— Ashley Poston

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

— Ashley Poston

140. “You can say things with food that you can’t quite with words sometimes.”

— Ashley Poston

141. “In the porch light, she looked older than she ever had. Weighed down by sadness-but held together still, by hope.”

— Ashley Poston

142. “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.”

— Ashley Poston

143. “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.”

— Ashley Poston

144. “How could two people reconcile and trust each other when they fell in love with the lies the other person told them? Where did you go from there?”

— Ashley Poston

145. “Not because I couldn’t exist on my own, but sometimes I just didn’t want to. Sometimes I just wanted to let me 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.”

— Ashley Poston

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

— Ashley Poston

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

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148. “She told me that you don’t ever lose the sadness, but you learn to love it because it becomes a part of you, and bit by bit, it fades.”

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

— Ashley Poston

150. “She smelled like apples and rose perfume, the smell of my childhood – skinned knees and pancakes in the breakfast nook and Sundays at the library, sitting in the stacks reading romance novels. She hugged me so tightly, it felt like every memory was a bone in my body that she needed to hold on to, to make sure they were still here. Still real.”

— Ashley Poston