Top 500 Kristen Ashley Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “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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302. “I needed to get to Fortnum’s, hang with my friends and be in my normal. That was to say, see if one of Lee’s other guys decided to wade into the troubled life of some sick gorgeous woman who had people wanting to kidnap her, stab her or steal her money, and wade into that.”

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303. “I don’t know, I haven’t read the handbook, but my guess is, bikers don’t do royal weddings. More like, rowdy weddings that end in someone gettin’ stuck with a knife.”

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304. “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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305. “Miss Annamae didn’t give you those pearls because she thought for a second they’d get close to beating you down. She gave you those pearls because she knew without a doubt they never would.”

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306. “Because if you don’t know how good something can be, you don’t know how bad you’ll miss it when it was gone.”

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307. “That’s the all-American dessert. Any proud, red-blooded American should easily be able to consume a huge bowl of that with a smile before they went off to plant a flag somewhere or win a gold medal or something.” “That is not the dessert of champions, baby.” “It most certainly is.” “My arteries hardened just looking at it.”

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308. “She’d long since tried to teach me that we should embrace who we were, even, or maybe especially, what she called the “special things, buttercup, the things no one else has, but you.”

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

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310. “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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311. “Told you, somethin’s good, it’s worth fightin’ for but not if you’re the only one fightin’.”

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312. “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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313. “You did it,” I said, my voice quiet and drowsy. “Did what, sugar?” “Today, at the Compound, what you said, you did it.” “What, baby?” “I dreamed a dream.” His arms spasmed. I drifted to sleep, muttering, “You promised to get me to a dream, you got me to a dream. Thank you, honey.” Then I fell asleep.”

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314. “God gave us a variety of ways to get hurt out and do it clean. Blood cleans a wound. Tears clean a different kind of wound. You might not like it, Frannie, but you shouldn’t stop yourself from doing it. Clean the wound so it can heal. Then move on.”

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315. “His girl? I was too freaked, and the subject was Jimmy Choos, so I didn’t ask about that.”

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316. “Son, you walked into the den of a master. If you aren’t able to extol the virtues of your mattress, Mara will guide you to one that you are. So, while you’re here, you need to let Mara show you our Spring Deluxe.”

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317. “I feel in love with you when you had a beard.”

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318. “Sahnahsoo nahna Dax neenkah, kah Dahksahna,” he murmured. Let your King inside, my Queen.”

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319. “You wanna clean up?” he asked quietly. “Yeah,” I answered quietly too. “Then shuteye or you wanna sit on my face?”

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320. “It was cool to wake up knowing your day would include someone else in a way that was integral to life.”

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321. “I didn’t want to go back to sleep. I wanted to talk to him until the earth started revolving around the moon.”

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322. “A lotta good things about you, honey. One of them is that Ethan’s pickin’ up your vocabulary. Swear to Christ, before Conner took him to school today, he said he was vexed about something and if I got it right, he used it right seein’ as he was annoyed.”

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323. “You got no choice but to be friendly,” he told it, being Chace bossy but the heretofore-unknown cute kind. My heart melted more. The kitty lifted a paw and pressed it to Chace’s nose. Chace grinned at him. The rest of me melted.”

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324. “Sylvie,” he called and I whirled on a snapped, “What?” “Bottom of my soul,” he whispered across the room, eyes locked to mine. I sucked in breath through my nose before I whispered back, “Bottom of mine.”

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325. “You’d always shine through,” he muttered and now he sounded sleepy but I was again wide awake. “Somethin’ special,” he finished.”

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326. “I’m not going to work in a place where I can’t eat donuts.”

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327. “Right there, his world was done. Because there was nothing that would be better than Carissa Teodoro standing a foot away with her hand warm on his, grinning up at him. Nothing.”

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328. “Tomorrow, we see how skilled you are, claws against steel.”

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329. “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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330. “I claimed it,” he went on. “But last night you gave it to me. Gift’s given, no takin’ it back. You get that, Tyra?” “I think so,” I whispered. “Get that, baby, it’s important.”

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

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332. “I had momentarily forgotten that men, on the whole, weren’t really fond of shopping, even for books. Big, bad, male vamps were probably seriously not fond of shopping.”

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333. “Love you so damned much, I let myself think about it, honest to Christ, it makes me dizzy.”

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334. “George’s eyes moved quickly back to the paper, and his lips twitched as he finished, “And finally, to Shauna Fontaine, I leave the knowledge that, when I started it with her, I got a vasectomy.”

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335. “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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336. “I think it’s beautiful,” I whispered. “Not sure you understand the concept of beauty, darlin’.” “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.”

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337. “Strong enough to know that it was better to have a little bit of something wonderful than a lifetime of just plain nothing.”

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338. “Duchess, you can argue about anything.”

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339. “Rush had his arm around Tab and he’d pulled her close. He nodded. His son was a good kid. Tabby whimpered. His daughter felt deep. “Love you both,” he told them, his voice rougher than normal. “Love you too, Dad,” Tabby whispered. “Love you, Dad.” Rush’s voice was gruff. Tack took off.”

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

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341. “I have my own stalker, Joe. I don’t want to have to deal with yours.”

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342. “You also need to know I want kids of my own, two of them. But I don’t care, if this works out between me and you, that the kids we have will have an older brother and sister that don’t have my blood, just my heart.”

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343. “He knew it the minute she spoke. He knew that was all he needed, those two soft words with her limbs wrapped around him and, God help him, he’d do anything for her.”

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344. “Babe, trust me. With my work, ignorance is bliss. Yeah?” Oh boy. I was right. I didn’t want to know. Time to switch subjects.”

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345. “All I ask is, when you got my babies inside you, you take cases you know are safe, and once we got kids under our roof, you proceed with the same caution. You with me?”

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346. “Indeed, love is everything but hate is the other side to that coin and it holds equal power.”

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347. “You never cut it.”

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348. “A Shirley Temple,” I ordered. He blinked. I ignored that and went on, “And I’d like for someone to tell Mr. Spear I’m here, if that’s possible. You can tell him it’s Josephine Malone.” He stared at me for a moment then asked, “You want a Shirley Temple?” “Yes, please,” I confirmed. “And for Mr. Spear to be told I’m here, if you don’t mind.”

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349. “As for my family, Ren was Ren and his family was his family and mine were who they were and usually this would be a Romeo and Juliet type of scenario. But I wasn’t big on Shakespeare so my family was also just going to have to deal.”

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350. “Something about our names all in a column on the family computer struck me. It was a good hit. So good, I wondered why anyone on earth would need drugs. You could get high just having a family.”

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