Top 500 Kristen Ashley Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “I decided to play it cool but there was one big problem with that. I wasn’t cool.”

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252. “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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253. “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.”

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254. “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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255. “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.”

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

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257. “Sometimes you kill me, baby.”

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258. “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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259. “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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260. “Welcome back to Mustang, dollface.”

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

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

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263. “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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264. “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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265. “If we can walk through fire, baby, we can do anything.”

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266. “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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267. “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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268. “I took one look at that picture and fell in love with you.”

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269. “That’s why when I met a woman whose house always smells like there’s a cake in the oven, who holds tight and presses her tits to my back when she’s with me on my bike, who looks at me like I can make the rest of the world melt away and for her its only me, I know I wanna hold onto that woman.”

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

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272. “Say you love me, Ivey.”

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273. “I won’t block you again, honey.”

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274. “I’m Rush. You call me Mr. Allen again, I’m clearing the room and we’re gonna have a different kind of lesson.”

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275. “Sibyl’s surrender had been complete. Colin instantly recognised just how much she had been holding back when she opened her heard to him fully. He found the offer of it into his care a gesture so precious, he wasn’t certain how to handle it but he was certain that he would not, under any circumstances, let it go.”

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276. “But Mom could guide you on the journey to understanding who you were and help you cement your value as a woman.”

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277. “Wow,” Mindy breathed and I looked at her then she smiled bright. “Neens, babe, you’re a totally fun date.”

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278. “And last, it was after he was relieved to find she was right about Psych. It wasn’t geeky. There were no spaceships, alternate universes or fantastical explanations for ridiculous plot devices. It was just damned funny and, to top that, clever.”

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279. “It’s what she raised me to be. It’s all I know, Anya. Protection. I was born then I was raised to be a shield.”

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280. “Apparently Super Max was pretty content with taking care of half the town, such was his wonderfulness.”

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281. “I’m not your old lady,” I declared. He grinned and asked, “You aren’t?” “No,” I stated firmly. “In my tee, in my bed, after a night where my condom stash got lighter by three, lady. Beg to differ,” he replied.”

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282. “You got good, you don’t let it go. It lets you go, you hold on. It slips through your fingers, you pull out all the stops to get it back. You got somethin’ worth fighting for, you fight for it. You do not sit on your ass waitin’ for it to come back to you.”

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

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284. “Told you that Buddha belly of yours was hot,” she reminded me.”

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285. “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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286. “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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287. “Emme and Deck talked as well as argued all the time about politics, current events, historical events, whatever. The good-natured arguing that got your heart pumping, made you think, made you listen, made you feel just that bit more alive. Elsbeth.”

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288. “And I wake up happy, baby, because I possess beauty and I own that beauty in all the forms it can take and the least important of those are physical.”

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289. “I was shifted outside of Eddie’s arm and then engulfed in a hug. I felt Tex’s flannel shirt against my cheek and then I felt his beard press against my forehead. “Fuckin’ A, Loopy Loo,” he said, absolutely no boom to his voice.”

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290. “Handbags and shoes were my passion.”

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291. “You don’t wanna breathe, babe. You wanna find time to repair your shield to hold me back.”

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292. “My angel of vengeance,” I answered, and she blinked.”

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293. “I take it you just etched your name on the invitation list for our little coffee klatch,” Mitch noted, now looking at Sebring. Knight grinned. “I’ll bring the pastries.”

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294. “Then he made love to me on a bed of rose petals. Seriously.”

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295. “After I said that, for the first time in a long time, I watched as Lee threw his head back and laughed.”

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296. “I thought it was a good question. I mean I didn’t lock myself in the Chaos Compound. I didn’t do a drive-by on my house. I just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and unfortunately that place was my own house.”

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297. “Cookie dough,” I explained. “My booty is carefully crafted from copious intake of cookie dough.” “Whatever.”

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298. “You are, my wee Finnie, beyond my wildest dreams.”

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299. “Compassion is often mistaken for weakness, when the fact is, there is very little that is more powerful than the courage it takes to give it.”

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300. “Life wasn’t about disappointment. Life was a journey. The journey of finding what I’d seen on my sister’s face the night before. Finding your place. Finding your people. And settling in so when those cold winds blew, you had warmth to see you through.”

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