Top 500 Kristen Ashley Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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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202. “My baby doesn’t want me to leave.” No. I didn’t.”

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203. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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209. “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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210. “It’s gonna happen again, Mara. I’m gonna kiss you, and you’re gonna kiss me. I’m gonna do other things to you, and you’re gonna do other things to me. No way in hell even you can share a kiss with a man like the ones we shared last night and not explore where that could go.”

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

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212. “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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213. “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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214. “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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215. “I’m the man who’s going to put your lush body on the back of his bike and take you to my flat. Then I’m going to take every piece of that lovely outfit off that lush body. Then I’m going to take you to my bed and I’m going to memorise, slowly, every inch of your skin. Then I’m going to watch you come while I’m inside you. That’s who I am.” Her.”

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216. “All eyes went there to see Hawk Delgado and Lee Nightingale, another local badass, a private investigator, walking in.”

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217. “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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218. “Hawk and his band of not-so-merry men.”

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219. “Just you wait until you get your turn, little man,” Amond advised. “I’m not kissin’ Josie,” Ethan returned, looking a little sick. “No, boy,” Amond replied. “When you get a woman of your own.” “She’s gonna cook like Josie. She’s gonna dress like Josie. She’s gonna talk like Josie. But we’re just holding hands,” Ethan informed Amond superiorly and my heart jumped as my belly melted.”

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220. “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.”

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221. “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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222. “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.”

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223. “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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224. “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.”

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

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

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

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228. “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.”

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229. “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.”

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230. “Truth, honesty, perseverance, strength, love of all kinds and forgiveness are all beautiful, Tack. The most beautiful stories ever told are the most difficult to take. “You were right, Red,” he whispered to the doors. “You were right, darlin’.”

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231. “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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232. “Forgot about this,” he muttered into my hair. “Sorry?” “Forgot,” he repeated. “Forgot?” “Forgot about carin’ about someone so much you would do everything in your power to stop them havin’ pain.”

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233. “Good to know, even after a family drama, Gwen’s still hard at work on that great ass,” he noted.”

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234. “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.”

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

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236. “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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237. “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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238. “You know, even Darth Vader had the good grace to ask Luke to join him on the dark side.”

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239. “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.”

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

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241. “Liam “Lee” Nightingale could hotwire any car going. He had both a Mustang and a motorcycle, started smoking when he was thirteen, was rumored to be able to get a girl pregnant by just looking at her and was also voted Best Smile.”

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242. “Still, beautiful, let your man do what he’s gotta do.”

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243. “You look good. There’s no better ass in a pair of jeans in the entire county and it’s mine to tap.”

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244. “I prefer your smiles and laughter, wife, but there are far worse things than your tears wetting my skin.”

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245. “Any chance I tell you to stay up here you won’t give me lip?” “No chance at all,” I answered. He stared at me a second then shook his head like I was intruding on his greeting company at his house rather than me walking down the stairs in my own damned house to greet my company. Then he turned and proceeded walking to the stairs. I.”

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246. “I could eat what I wanted and not have to make exactly what Cooter wanted. I could go to bed when I wanted. I could wear what I wanted. I could watch on TV what I wanted. I could talk on the phone.”

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247. “The perfect I was looking for wasn’t perfection. The perfect I was looking for was the one. And he was you.”

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248. “No, it’s never happened to me before but I doubt after I fell head over heels in love with a wonderful man who kept important things from me, I’ll get over it just like that. I’ll drink with my girls and cry and wonder if I made the right decision. Then another man will come along, he won’t be as wonderful as my first love, but I suppose I’ll eventually get over it and move on.”

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249. “She traveled too. She had a strict rule. One week vacation a year, relaxation on a beach. The other week of vacation, adventure. Going somewhere she could learn, see, taste, experience.”

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250. “Time for you to go all in, Joke. And time for you to stop accepting the dregs, reach for what you deserve, and take hold of butterflies.” Joker.”

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