Top 500 Kristen Ashley Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “And when you’re that sure and end up getting it that wrong, you lose faith in yourself, your ability to make the right decisions about your life.”

— Kristen Ashley

202. “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.”

— Kristen Ashley

203. “I was in no mood to argue. I was in the mood to go to sleep for fifty years, wake up and old maid and live out my life in a nursing home with my only excitement being Friday Night Bingo.”

— Kristen Ashley

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

— Kristen Ashley

205. “I know we’re still getting to know each other. But I also know you’re a smart girl. I hate that you learned this lesson at all, much less that you did it at your age. But please, Tab, learn it. You can have family that makes you safe. You can have friends who’ll take your back. But the most important person and the one who’ll have the best shot at keeping you safe is you.”

— Kristen Ashley

206. “A man is defined many ways. One of those is the woman he picks to be at his side.”

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207. “We fight.” She shook her head and the tears continued to fall. “And when we can’t fight, we learn to turn to others who’ve learned life’s lessons. Who’ve survived. Who’ll gather close and help us make it through.”

— Kristen Ashley

208. “Common miracle. This. Common miracle. Even common, still miraculous.”

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209. “A touch, only a hint, of everything. An intriguing woman does not share her secrets in any way. She does not speak of them, she does not give them away through her manner and she definitely does not make the mistake of giving them away through her appearance.”

— Kristen Ashley

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

— Kristen Ashley

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

— Kristen Ashley

212. “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.”

— Kristen Ashley

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

— Kristen Ashley

214. “Only games worth playin’ are games of the heart.”

— Kristen Ashley

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

— Kristen Ashley

216. “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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217. “Yes, I read. And yes, I do it a lot. And yes, I did it before you because life can suck and living in a fantasy world is a lot more fun than living in the real world sometimes. This was not a weak choice, it was an informed one.”

— Kristen Ashley

218. “Butterfly, advice. Don’t start playin’ new games when you’re already winnin’ the one you’re in.”

— Kristen Ashley

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

— Kristen Ashley

220. “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.”

— Kristen Ashley

221. “Most of all I loved the serenity that came from being alone in a world of books at the same time not being alone because the world was around me, some if it real, the vast majority of it worlds all their own, contained on pages bound to a cover.”

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222. “Told her she needs to look at her Mom and learn. You had three men in your life, all of ‘em willin’ to hand you the world. She should accept nothin’ less.”

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223. “I decided to play it cool but there was one big problem with that. I wasn’t cool.”

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224. “I carried you to the Explorer and you couldn’t even hold your head up. You passed out in my lap after you told me there was no one to care if you woke up. I live to be a hundred, mamita, I’ll never forget it. Not one fuckin’ second of it.”

— Kristen Ashley

225. “I looked back at him. “I’m in love with you, so yes.” He closed his eyes and he did it slowly, dropping his head. That meant something to him. I stared at him. Tall, broad, strong, scary, dude-you-don’t-mess-with Knight Sebring, head bowed, overcome. No, I was wrong. It meant everything to him.”

— Kristen Ashley

226. “The mistakes we make in life don’t define us, Amy. The way we handle ’em after makin’ ’em do. You made a mistake. Now you’re handling it and doing it the right way and that’s who you are.”

— Kristen Ashley

227. “You’re fooling around with my daughter while there are ghosts in the house!” she accused Jack as if this was an act akin to rounding up innocent citizens randomly in order to torture them just for kicks. Then, bizarrely, she backtracked, “Not that I frown on fooling around, because, you know, everyone needs a bit of nookie. Especially on a Sunday afternoon.” Mom turned to Yasmin and shared, “Best time of the week, Sunday afternoon.”

— Kristen Ashley

228. “You have the best wild west rancher cowboy name in history.”

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229. “Sometimes you kill me, baby.”

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230. “You do bad things, doesn’t matter if you’re a kid or a grown up, you get punished. Your dad has done bad and he’s gettin’ punished.”

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231. “Can’t get a read on you,” he noted after a few beats. “You either just got a late life offer from the Colts to be their starting tight end or you’re planning to kidnap someone to torture them.”

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232. “Welcome back to Mustang, dollface.”

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233. “We girlie girls might be able to help you big strong boys kick ass,” Leah declared proudly and both Lucien and Callum grinned at her.”

— Kristen Ashley

234. “I can’t function around a man if I know his ability to give pleasure.”

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235. “There are reasons we walk this earth. I’m coming to realize mine.”

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236. “Wars fought over a face like this,” he murmured like he was talking to himself, my heart stopped beating and his thumbs moved lightly across my cheeks. “A man would work himself into the ground for it, go down to his knees to beg to keep it, endure torture to protect it, take a bullet for it,” his eyes came to mine, “poison his brother to possess a face like this.”

— Kristen Ashley

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237. “If I could have wished what I thought was my perfect mate on the wind and had her come back to me in a storm, I could never have come up with anything as exquisite as you.”

— Kristen Ashley

238. “Do you have any fuckin’ clue how much I love you?”

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239. “Did you think of maybe telling me you were going to clean my gutters and needed a ladder to do it before taking off to look at ladders, leaving me talking to myself?” I asked. “When I took off, you weren’t talkin’.” I found this hard to believe, though I did have to take a breath so perhaps he’d escaped when I did that.”

— Kristen Ashley

240. “If we can walk through fire, baby, we can do anything.”

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241. “Millie, I was given one good thing in my life, the family I was born into. I found one good thing, my Club... But in all my life, I only earned one good thing. That’s you.”

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242. “Something that made you believe there was a God but he didn’t make miracles. He created beings and gave them the power to make miracles, miracles both great and small.”

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243. “If I’m your Mitch, you’re my Mara,” he whispered against my skin, his words making me shiver again because I liked that idea, a whole lot. Then I felt his tongue glide along my throat as his hand glided back up my side, and I shivered yet again.”

— Kristen Ashley

244. “If you leave,” he repeated, “I’ll find you and bring you back.” She.”

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245. “Seriously. Who needed a real lover when you had a handsome, affectionate man who adored you, put a beautiful house over your head, gave you a great job, lavished you with fabulous clothes, shoes, purses and jewelry and would never break your heart?”

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246. “I didn’t know that was what I was looking for. I just knew I wasn’t going to settle for anything less, not anything less than perfect. I was going to find the man of my daydreams and nothing else would do. So I never got married because I never found him, no one ever brought that color into my life. Until Tack.”

— Kristen Ashley

247. “Unfortunately, baby doll, we don’t have enough time for me to explain all the ways I love you. That, in itself, would take centuries.”

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248. “I spent a lot of years saving for a rainy day.” I gave him a small smile. “So, it’s raining. Whatever. The rain always stops.”

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249. “Jake felt suddenly raw. Humble. Grateful. Honored. Loved.”

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250. “Wars fought over a face like this. A man would work himself into the ground for it, go down to his knees to beg to keep it, endure torture to protect it, take a bullet for it, poison his brother to possess a face like this.”

— Kristen Ashley