Top 50 Jennifer Ashley Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I loved and adored you, but I drained you like a thirsty man at a spring. I loved what you could give me – your admiration, your acceptance, your love, your forgiveness. I forgot to love you for yourself.”

— Jennifer Ashley

2. “Love is for middle class”, Fellows said.“The poor can’t afford it, and neither can the rich.”

— Jennifer Ashley

3. “A phallus thick with desire, rising from a dark thatch.”

— Jennifer Ashley

4. “Now I know why Englishmen don’t let their ladies fight alongside them. The women would take over in a heartbeat.” Mary squeezed his arm in the darkness. “Don’t be silly.” “’Tis true, and the English bastards know it. That’s why they write laws t’ keep their women tamed. And why I keep having to rescue ye.” “You mean abducting me.” Mal heaved a mock sigh. “Well, we’re never going to see eye to eye on that.”

— Jennifer Ashley

5. “You never forget the love of your life, Ainsley Douglas, no matter what he did to anger you, and no matter how much time has passed.”

— Jennifer Ashley

6. “Visiting a brothel is respectable, the vicar’s widow asks with her brows raised?” “They.”

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7. “Listen to yourself. Poor martyred Louisa. I predict that Fellows will solve this murder and then sweep you off your feet.” Daniel shrugged. “Well, the sweeping-you-off-your-feet part might take a little nudge. But he wants to do it. It’s a beautiful thing to watch the way he looks at you. Fellows glared at Gil tonight as though he wanted to find a claymore, learn how to use it, and finish him off. Or just pull out a pistol and shoot him.”

— Jennifer Ashley

8. “Mac’s friends had viewed his celibacy as a joke, and his brothers had thought he’d been trying to prove himself to Isabella. Proving himself had been part of it, but the truth was that Mac had not wanted another woman. Going to someone else wouldn’t have been comfort, or even forgetting. Mac had lost himself when he’d married Isabella, and that was that.”

— Jennifer Ashley

9. “He’d have her in his bed if he had to recruit Curry, Isabella, Mac, and every other person in Paris to get her there.”

— Jennifer Ashley

10. “But people can’t be fixed, especially not men like Mr. McBride. Not in the way you mean. You have to understand, and help him, dear. Not repair him.”

— Jennifer Ashley

11. “That bowl was special because of the blue. It exactly matched your eyes.”

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12. “A safe harbor. In the turmoil of her life, she’d known so few of them.”

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13. “Isabella entered her dining room in the morning to see two newspapers held by two sets of male hands, one set large and muscular, the other narrower and bonier. The occasional crunch of toast sounded behind the sheets of newsprint. Isabella.”

— Jennifer Ashley

14. “The man who couldn’t look anyone in the eyes was making himself do it, no matter what the pain. He was giving her a gift, the greatest one he could, straight from his heart.”

— Jennifer Ashley

15. “I have a question to ask you.” Beth stretched one arm across the back of the seat, hoping she looked provocative. “And what is that, husband?” Ian leaned down, his body hemming her in. His large fists rested on the seat back behind her. “Do I love you?”

— Jennifer Ashley

16. “He looked like a man who’d invite you to rest your head on his shoulder while he made everything bad go away.”

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17. “Perhaps I can’t save them from themselves,” Beth answered. “But I will try to save them from you.” Fellows.”

— Jennifer Ashley

18. “I’m trying to teach my son mercy and restraint,” Dylan said to Crosby, his voice guttural. “Because I don’t have any myself.”

— Jennifer Ashley

19. “She tasted happiness here that she’d had only a glimpse of with Thomas. Thomas had taught thelonely, frightened Beth Villiers that she was allowed to be happy. Ian was letting her imbibe all the happiness she wanted.”

— Jennifer Ashley

20. “Ye have to be bold, lad. We’re told that ladies want cringing politeness from a gentleman, but what they really want is a bit of forwardness, even carnality. It’s exciting for them.”

— Jennifer Ashley

21. “Kicked my ass is what he did,” Zander said as he laid towels around the wound. “Embarrassing. Polar bear Shifters are the biggest predators alive, and I let a tiger kick my butt.”

— Jennifer Ashley

22. “Why? What can I do to help?” The man raised his brows. “Nothing. You’ve got great legs – I just want to see them next to me.”

— Jennifer Ashley

23. “You are the beauty I’ve been seeking all my life. My existence was dark, grim, full of struggle, until you. You are the light that pushes the darkness away. When I’m with you, I can see my way, and I can breathe again.”

— Jennifer Ashley

24. “They all had them, dark secrets of the soul. The only way to deal with them was to live, and forget.”

— Jennifer Ashley

25. “Addie was here by her own choice, lying on a very comfortable bed, while a hot man who didn’t look at her with boredom was running around somewhere, insisting she take it easy while he did all the work. Dreams really did come true.”

— Jennifer Ashley

26. “Well, I am nothing like perfection.” “You’re better. You’re you.”

— Jennifer Ashley

27. “You bring happiness with you.” Angus smoothed her hair with a strong hand. “The house has been brighter all day, with you in it.”... Midnight Wolf, Epilogue, page 257.”

— Jennifer Ashley

28. “What’s more, he could fall asleep with her and wake up with her, spend the day with her, go to bed with her, and begin the wonderful ritual all over again. His.”

— Jennifer Ashley

29. “There are no right and wrong choices,” Tain said trying to keep his voice gentle. “There is only what we do with the choices we make.”

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30. “The trouble with Ian Mackenzie’s questions was that he asked the unanswerable. And yet she should know how to answer – everyone should. But they couldn’t, because everyone simply knew. Everyone except Ian.”

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31. “This was too absurd, and at the same time dismayingly tempting.”

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32. “Simple explanations are usually the wisest ones – a person can complicate a straightforward situation with unnecessary dramatics and end up in a complete mess.”

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33. “Daniel was just nineteen now and already friends with half of England, not to mention all of Scotland and probably most of Wales.”

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34. “You didn’t want Mather to have the bowls, and you didn’t want him to have me.” He stared a moment. Then he leaned to her, suddenly fierce. “When I saw you, I knew I had to take you away from him. He had no idea what you were worth, just like he can’t price the damn bowls. He’s a philistine.”

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35. “Ian closed his eyes. Beth watched emotions flicker across his face, the uncertainty, the stubbornness, the raw pain he’d lived with for so long. He didn’t always know how to express his emotions, but that didn’t mean he didn’t feel them deeply.”

— Jennifer Ashley

36. “Their mouths falling together every time they were alone had to cease.”

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37. “There is no reason to start small. If you want something, you go for it. You never know in this life when it will all be taken away.”

— Jennifer Ashley

38. “When you lose someone you care about, it’s hard to accept that the universe doesn’t notice the huge void.”

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39. “Do you mind my madness? Even if you’re right that I can contain the rages, I will always be mad. I won’t get better.” “I know.” Beth snuggled against his chest. “It’s part of the very intriguing package that is Ian Mackenzie.”

— Jennifer Ashley

40. “All of us are mad in some way,” Ian said. “I have a memory that won’t let go of details. Hart is obsessed with politics and money. Cameron is a genius with horses, and Mac paints like a god. You find out details on your cases that others miss. You are obsessed with justice and getting everything you think is coming to you. We all have our madness. Mine is just the most obvious.”

— Jennifer Ashley

41. “Call me Beth, please,” she said. “I am no longer Mrs. Ackerley and have become, to our mutual astonishment, your sister.” Hart.”

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42. “On bottom... Fellows studied the blue and green Mackenzie plaid kilt laid out across his bed. He’d worn it before, at Christmas at Kilmorgan, feeling strange with wool wrapping his hips, air circulating his thighs. Scotsmen had to be mad.”

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43. “Beth knew in that instant that she was not a true lady, and never would be. A true lady would have fallen out of her chair in a gentle swoon or screamed down the opera house. Instead, Beth leaned into Ian’s touch, liking it.”

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44. “His words died and he began to rub his temple, frustration glinting in his eyes. Beth put her hand over his. “Don’t think of it.” “It plays over and over and over again, like a melody that won’t stop.”

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45. “Yes, live in misery the rest of your life,” Daniel said. “That will show everyone.”

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46. “He wasn’t listening. “We don’t fit in, you and me,” he said. “We’re both oddities no one knows what to do with. But we fit together.” He took her hand, pressed her palm to his, then laced their fingers through each other’s. “We fit.”

— Jennifer Ashley

47. “The human police had come to the bar outside Shiftertown to ask Liam about the reported noise in Shiftertown that day, and Liam had glibly told them, “Shifter games.” He’d smiled his warm smile and let his Irish lilt roll from his tongue. Kim had backed him up, as had Silas the reporter. “Running and jumping and other frolicking,” Liam had said. “Like your human Olympics but not as organized.”

— Jennifer Ashley

48. “Carly’s lips touched his cheek. Tiger tried to pucker his in response, showing her how much he’d learned. She didn’t stop weeping, so he must not have done very well.”

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49. “My dear Isabella, I will take your suggestion and show you what happens when you play with fire. I will make certain we see each other quite, quite often. And there will be no growing jaded with each other. Because you see, my dear, when I at last take you home again, it will be forever. No regrets, no games, no being ‘comfortable.’ We will be man and wife, in all ways, and it will be final.”

— Jennifer Ashley

50. “I am telling you to be happy. Even if it lasts only a little while. We must snatch what we can when we have the chance. Life is so very lonely when we don’t.”

— Jennifer Ashley