Top 500 Kristen Ashley Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “It’s always been you.”

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202. “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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203. “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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204. “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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205. “It was like Idiot Skank and her sidekick Skanky Moron do Denver.”

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

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207. “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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208. “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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209. “Hawk and his band of not-so-merry men.”

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210. “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.”

— Kristen Ashley

211. “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.”

— Kristen Ashley

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

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213. “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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214. “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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215. “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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216. “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

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

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

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219. “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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220. “Common miracle. This. Common miracle. Even common, still miraculous.”

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221. “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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222. “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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223. “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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224. “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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225. “If you leave,” he repeated, “I’ll find you and bring you back.” She.”

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226. “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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227. “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

228. “You’re beautiful, Finnie, but by the gods you have never been more beautiful than you are right now, spread before me, wrapped in my wool and filled with me.”

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229. “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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230. “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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231. “Still, beautiful, let your man do what he’s gotta do.”

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

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233. “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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234. “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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235. “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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236. “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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237. “Be strong for the world, darling, if that’s what you need to be. But here, with me, you can be whatever you care to be.”

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238. “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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239. “He wanted to give her a love that wouldn’t die even with death.”

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240. “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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241. “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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242. “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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243. “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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244. “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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245. “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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246. “Do you have any fuckin’ clue how much I love you?”

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

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248. “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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249. “I bet you didn’t have to say a word. I bet those rings were all Ty. Which makes you the only female on the planet who didn’t have to give her man some instruction when it came to an engagement ring,” Krystal noted correctly and I looked down at her. “He may drink beer but that boy is pure champagne.”

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250. “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.”

— Kristen Ashley