Top 500 Kristen Ashley Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Yes, Detective Mitchell James Lawson was stubborn. More stubborn than me. Damn.”

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

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

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206. “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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207. “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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208. “Beauty bound. She was not a ghost who could be seen. She was a hostage in a lavish cage.”

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209. “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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210. “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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211. “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.”

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

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213. “See, he may come back, sometimes they do, and I hope you don’t mind, but I fibbed a little, told the customer she was dating a police detective who never missed a workout. You don’t, do you? Ever miss a workout?”

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214. “Knight was walking to me; dark gray, drawstring pajama bottoms on, long-ish hair sexy messy from sleep, chest with its enticing array of dark hair bared, eyes on me.”

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215. “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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216. “Hawk and his band of not-so-merry men.”

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

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218. “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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219. “I know what you’re trying to make me understand, darling. And I can’t tell the future. But I’m looking forward to it, as long as it seems, as far as it goes, as long as you’re in it.”

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220. “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.”

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221. “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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222. “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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223. “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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224. “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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225. “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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226. “Do you have any fuckin’ clue how much I love you?”

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

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229. “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.”

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230. “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.”

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231. “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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232. “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.”

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233. “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.”

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

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235. “Do not stand still for injustice. If you know something isn’t right, find your strength and stand against it.”

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236. “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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237. “Tab and I don’t play it that way. You wanna order your old lady around, do what you do, not for me to say. I asked her to go, she didn’t go. Not gonna make her. But you try, you’ll deal with me.”

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238. “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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239. “The trouble was, all their eyes came to me when I opened the door and Morrie grinned a my-girl’s-gonna-get-herself-some grin. Colt looked like he wanted someone to tear his own fingernails out by the roots. And Cal looked like he was having trouble not busting a gut laughing.”

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

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

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242. “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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243. “But he didn’t hold me when we slept. We didn’t make love. He didn’t curl his fingers around my breast in the unconscious but still possessive way Max was doing at that very moment.”

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244. “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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245. “Jake felt suddenly raw. Humble. Grateful. Honored. Loved.”

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246. “Sometimes you kill me, baby.”

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247. “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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248. “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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249. “You got a problem with the way your life’s gone down, deal with it without draggin’ someone down with you.”

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250. “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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