Top 280 Ashley Poston Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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. And eventually, you’ll pick yourself back up and you’ll find that you’re okay. That you’re going to be okay. And eventually, it will be true.”

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202. “A book is a time capsule. No matter how much I change, or will change, or will learn, this book will be stagnant. It’ll exist here, forever unchanged, along with the pieces of me that I put into the pages.”

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203. “It’s weird, I didn’t think some of my best friends would be strangers on the internet, but here we are. My mom doesn’t quite get it, but she understands enough. She said once you find the good ones, you keep them around no matter what.”

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204. “Because this story was good, and it was sweet. And it was home.”

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

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206. “This scene would go in the section of the travel guide labeled “Scenic Spots” because I wouldn’t get tired of looking at his face for years – decades. I wanted to watch it age, I wanted to see what kind of wrinkles knitted into his smiles.”

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207. “Sometimes the people you loved left you halfway through a story. Sometimes they left you without a goodbye.”

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208. “You’re an Excel spreadsheet to my chaos.”

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209. “Life wasn’t about the ending. It was about everything else.”

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210. “We might’ve been a family in black, but our lives were filled with light and hope and joy.”

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211. “And he was most definitely dead.”

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212. “How do I forgive my past self for all the futures I didn’t become? I don’t know.”

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213. “Sometimes, a book can change your life.”

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214. “And who decides on what dues you need to pay? If you want something, you have to go for it. No one else will be more on your side than you.”

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215. “They have character. Though, I’ve yet to meet a bookstore that doesn’t.”

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

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217. “There was a gap between early twenties and late twenties that only people existing in bodies in their late twenties understood. You could still fight god, but you’d have to ice your knees afterward.”

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218. “She had this far-off look in her eyes. “I thought I could find her, that it would be easy – that it would be like seeing someone you once knew on a crowded sidewalk, and your eyes meet, and time stands still. But time never stands still,” she added bitterly. “A lot can happen in seven years.”

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219. “I argued, often, that once a book was done, once it was written and published and sent out into the world, it was no longer yours. It turned into ours – together. You, telling the story, and us, interpreting it.”

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220. “No, love wasn’t a trap, something you had to crawl out of later.”

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221. “Grief is just a love song in reverse.”

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222. “You can just dance, Lemon. You can take the lead.” “And you’ll follow?” “To the moon and back,” he replied, and I leaned forward, my hands pressed against his hard chest, and kissed him again.”

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223. “See, darling? she would say. You can plan everything in your life, and you’ll still be taken by surprise.”

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224. “Mom once asked how she could forgive her past self for all the futures she didn’t become, and I wasn’t sure I knew that answer then, but I did now. There was nothing to forgive. Because my mom lived in the moment, wide and full and loud, and she danced in the rain and she sang her favorite songs at the top of her lungs, and she was here – in a place regret couldn’t touch.”

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225. “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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226. “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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227. “That was her mantra. “You see it, you reach for it.”

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228. “Love was a bunch of small things that added up to bigger things.”

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229. “When was the last time you did something for the first time?” he asked, as if daring me.”

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230. “I began to realize my life wasn’t stopping, either. It would go on regardless of whether I burrowed my head in the sand and stayed stock-still.”

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231. “The sadness will last forever. It wasn’t a lie. There was sadness, and there was despair, and there was pain – but there was also laughter, and joy, and relief. There was never grief without love or love without grief, and I chose to think that my aunt lived because of them.”

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232. “Old love was like riding a bike, after all. You never quite forgot how it felt.”

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233. “My mom doesn’t quite get it, but she understands enough. She said that once you find the good ones, you keep them around no matter what.”

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234. “I’m tired of living the same page every day.”

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235. “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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236. “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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237. “I think,” he finally said, choosing his words carefully, “that nothing lasts forever. Not the good things, not the bad. So just find what makes you happy, and do it for as long as you can.”

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238. “I want a first chapter, and a second and a third – those long chapters, you know, the ones you have to take a break from halfway through. I want all of it, not just the end.” He looked down at my hands, and took them in his, and squeezed them tightly. “And I want it with you.”

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239. “I’m just tired of sacrificing myself all the time,” I replied. “I sort of felt like the Giving Tree, chopping myself smaller and smaller, and I guess I finally realized, if I keep this up, I’d be nothing but a stump in the end.”

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240. “And I love how you make me want to see the world in color, and I love how I feel when I’m with you. And maybe we won’t work out, but maybe we will – and I’ll run across cities, and I’ll show up with boom boxes outside your window, and I’ll meet you at the tops of buildings, and I’ll kiss you in the rain just to remind you that you’re worth every moment.”

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241. “Every touch, every brush of his fingertips across my skin, had a weight to it. A reverence. Like I wasn’t merely some girl to kiss and remember fondly in ten years, but someone to be kissed in ten years. In twenty. But, of course, that didn’t happen, that couldn’t happen, because I already knew how this ended.”

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242. “It took me years to realize that she had only told me the good parts that first summer afternoon, when she was trying to fill the silence. I was twelve when she finally told me the sad parts. She told me to pay attention – that the heartbreak was important, too.”

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243. “I loved how she spent every moment making a memory, every second living wide and full, and I hated that she never thought – never once entertained the idea – that she would have another dance in the rain.”

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244. “I felt starved – the wild girl I wanted to be but never quite was, the kind who yearned to devour the world, one sensation at a time.”

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245. “Follow your heart, Even if it leads you wrong, will you really regret it?”

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

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247. “Sometimes, that’s how it happens. Sometimes your favorite book just hits you out of the blue like a bolt of lightning.”

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248. “She waltzed through life like she belonged at every party she was never invited to, fell in love with every lonely heart she found, and found luck in every adventure.”

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249. “It was refreshing, and nice, and sweet – to be given something so I didn’t have to want it in the first place.”

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250. “The town was quiet in that cozy, sleepy way that if you closed your eyes, you could almost hear the valley breathe as wind crept through it, between the buildings, and was sighed out again.”

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