Top 500 Kristen Ashley Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I can’t imagine it, what would make a man who has the love of a woman, a woman who wants nothing but to live a life loving him and the babies they make, strive to turn that to hate. If I could stand the sight of you, I’d be interested in you explaining that to me. But I can’t stand the sight of you. So that will remain a mystery.”

— Kristen Ashley

152. “Aunt Bette.” I started squirming toward her voice. “Are you okay?” “No, I’m not okay. We’ve been kidnapped and Marsh is drinking martinis and probably flirting with the waitress!” she snapped, and it sounded like she too was moving but not in my direction.”

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153. “We can’t live crippled by what we’re scared might happen. We have to live in the moment, happy with what we have.”

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154. “Before we learn what’s right, we put our trust in the wrong people, and it’s never good to start life’s adventures, especially important ones like marriage, when we’re too young even to know ourselves.”

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155. “He was the one. This motorcycle man in bed with me was the man of my dreams. I never would have guessed it would be a man like him but I knew it was.”

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156. “What looks good to you?” Bradley asked. Mickey Donovan, I did not answer.”

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157. “You weren’t born princess, Finnie Drakkar, but that does not mean you’re not one.”

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158. “Is there more about the world I don’t know? Like, does Superman exist?” I asked. “Vampires and werewolves roam the earth. It’s a possibility,” he answered. I smiled as I asked, “Could you kick his ass?” “Absolutely,” he replied. “Cocky,” I muttered.”

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159. “I’d die for her. I’m two hundred and five years old and I’ve been raised with love. I’ve been blessed with family. I’ve shown and been gifted with loyalty. I’ve known joy. But I’ve never felt complete until I had Delilah.”

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160. “But we don’t live in a perfect world, Knight.” “I do, certain times a day, those bein’ when I walk over that threshold,” he stated, jerking his chin toward the front door.”

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161. “You love your children, maybe not the same but always the same amount.”

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162. “And last,” Ms. Baginski carried on. “My most precious possession, the thing I treasure above anything else in this world, that being my granddaughter, Josephine Diana Malone, I hereby bequeath to James Markham Spear.”

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163. “And I grew up in a close family, and I always knew I wanted one of those too. So, I cannot promise you life is gonna run perfect. I cannot tell the future. What I can say is, what we have when you and me are tossin’ a ball or mannin’ the grill or sittin’ at the table doin’ your homework, that means something to me. It’s important to me. And when something’s important, you take care of it.”

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164. “That was it. That was his pickup line. You comin’ or what?”

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165. “How lonely I was, even when I was with him. How it felt, him not making love to me, being affectionate, making me feel desired or desirable. How much it bothered me that, even though I’d talked to him about all of this, even wrote him other e-mails, it didn’t ever seem to penetrate.”

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166. “I don’t think either man meant to do you wrong but in the end they did. And I’m the man who’s gonna do you right, Rosalie. With me, that rough ride is gonna end, baby.”

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167. “But first, I needed to go to the liquor store and buy a bottle of Jack. I didn’t drink Jack but I thought now was a very good time to take up bourbon.”

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168. “Anyone can find themselves in a place they don’t want to be, and even knowin’ they don’t wanna be there, they can’t get out. It’s findin’ it in you to get out that says it all about you, Amy.”

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169. “Life has certain things planned. I find, for some people, it takes you places you don’t want to go but the path leads to where you need to be.”

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170. “I fell in love with you, Liv.” “That’s impossible.” “It isn’t. It happened. And you – ” “It’s impossible because there is no me to fall in love with. I don’t exist.” That made him stop moving. She continued speaking. “I breathe. I’m here. I take up space. I eat. I drive. But I have no brain. No will. No strength. No opinions. I do not matter to the point I do not exist.” “You exist for me.” “I.”

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171. “And Burford needs a momma.”

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172. “This was it. This was us. This was what we’d be. Wild and free.”

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173. “The going will get tough, and you’ll stick. We’ll fight, and you’ll stick. Our world could rock, Eliza, and there’s one thing I’m certain about, you’ll stick.”

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174. “I love that that beauty runs so deep, even when I have it for eternity, I know I’ll never find the end.”

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175. “You love me but won’t let yourself have me.” “I – ” “And, baby,” he lifted his hand to my jaw and dropped his face closer to mine, “I’m gonna figure out why. Fix what’s broke in you. Then turn my attention to givin’ you the best life I can for the rest of the time you’re on this earth breathin’.”

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176. “And I you, my handsome wolf. With everything I am, with everything I’m meant to be, and with eternity to be it in, that’s a lot.”

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177. “Hate is not a feeling toward another, but a feeling of defeat by another.”

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178. “See, that’s the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for everyone. You get a good one, you may even find what you need.”

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179. “It was so worth it to walk through fire for you.”

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180. “Just so I’m clear, if you make it Tab or my cut, I pick Tab. You’ll get my cut and you, personally, will not ever, brother, not ever again see me.”

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181. “It was like Idiot Skank and her sidekick Skanky Moron do Denver.”

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182. “Honey, life has enough obstacles planned for you. Stop putting up your own and just live it.”

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183. “There is nothing guaranteed in life. But the only leaps really worth taking are leaps of faith on love. So look where you leap, beautiful, and happy landing.”

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184. “If you told me you needed a time-out, first I wouldn’t fuckin’ let you have one. Second, I wouldn’t give you a reason to fuckin’ want one. And last, you took off anyway, I’d fuckin’ phone.”

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185. “I love you,” he declared. “Loved you then. Love you now. Never quit lovin’ you in a way I know I never will. You were it for me, the only one, the only woman I ever loved, and you never quit bein’ it.”

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186. “Christ, you’re the most annoying woman I’ve ever met.”

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187. “Nothing a Little Sparkle Won’t Fix. My mantra.”

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188. “You’re cool Joe” she told him, her voice weighty, as if she was bestowing a grave honor on him even though a blind person could sense his utter coolness.”

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189. “That’s the way it was with best friends. You got mad, you got over it.”

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190. “Yes, Detective Mitchell James Lawson was stubborn. More stubborn than me. Damn.”

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191. “Two weeks ago when you walked into my bedroom to use my phone, the life you been livin’, which isn’t all that good, got better. A fuckuva lot better. Because I’m gonna make it that way.”

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192. “My baby doesn’t want me to leave.” No. I didn’t.”

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193. “I don’t get my tees at a mall, Tess. No decent tee can be bought at a fuckin’ mall. A good tee is bought during an experience.”

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194. “I make you mine, officially,” he continued, “no one ever has you again, Lottie, but me.”

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195. “Now he knew that he’d never miss these moments and he’d always feel that beautiful pain because he’d always understand how precious they were.”

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196. “Then she declared loudly, “Smoke break!” and everyone’s eyes came to us, some of them shocked seeing as these days you could light up a doobie and no one would blink but if you lit up a smoke, you courted being publicly stoned to death.”

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197. “Beauty bound. She was not a ghost who could be seen. She was a hostage in a lavish cage.”

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198. “Because even one voice in a wilderness of ignorance is a voice that is heard by someone. Because every woman and man, no matter their color or their religion, is entitled to a good defense.”

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199. “I know one thing deep in my heart. I will never forget yesterday, when my brother found what he needed to take away his pain.”

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200. “That’s it,” Joyce stated. “She strolls in here and does any of that, it’s gonna be me goin’ to your momma’s house and dragging her out to take her to one of Pastor Keller’s revivals. He’ll dip her in the river and hold her down until she sees Jesus. And if she doesn’t, he’ll hold her down until she sees Jesus.”

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