Top 500 Kristen Ashley Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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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302. “Honest to God, dollface, you need to stop running around in that fuckin’ nightie. You’re killin’ me.”

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303. “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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304. “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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305. “I’m telling you what you should expect. You matter, Tyra, and that’s what you should expect.”

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306. “I don’t need to say aloud what I know you also are beginning to understand, wee one.”

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

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

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309. “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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310. “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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311. “Then he made love to me on a bed of rose petals. Seriously.”

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312. “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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313. “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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314. “Cookie dough,” I explained. “My booty is carefully crafted from copious intake of cookie dough.” “Whatever.”

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315. “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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316. “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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317. “It was beyond anything I could have wished it to be. You are, my wee Finnie, beyond my wildest dreams.”

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318. “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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319. “Literature is art and art is about passion. It’s about drive. It’s about beauty. How can you slide through a semester of that and not be moved by it?”

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320. “Why?” Sal clipped. “’Cause this is Frankie. She could be standin’ in a field in the middle of the day and a dead body would drop on her.”

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321. “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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322. “When you figure it out and move onto a beautiful life, don’t regret the time you wasted on me.”

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323. “I got toe-to-toe with him and yelled in his face, “Leave me and my Dad alone, Eddie Chavez!” Eddie leaned into me, so close he was all I could see. Quietly, he asked, “Is it wrong that I want to kiss you right now?”

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324. “Sorry, sweetness, but in the meantime, I gotta play her game. I want my move to be a surprise, I want her scrambling and, bottom line, I want my kids. I’m willin’ to do just about anything to see that happen and I’m gonna need to ask you to ride that out with me.”

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325. “You’re going to take me now, Maddie, and warning, my dove, I’ll not be gentle.”

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326. “My honor, Jussy, to be that man who’s there for you.”

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327. “Today’s plans have changed, babe,” he announced before taking a sip of his, and I looked at him. “Plans?” I asked, not knowing we actually had plans. “Yeah, gotta be at George’s in an hour.” “George’s?” I queried. “Though, thinkin’ this is good. You can meet him, feel him out.” “Meet him? Feel him out?” I parroted.”

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328. “You don’t know what kind of girl I am.” “I know precisely the kind of woman you are, Daisy. And if you don’t understand it, then it’ll be up to me to show it to you.”

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329. “But it wasn’t that I wasn’t big on socializing. It was that I wasn’t very good at mingling. Small talk did nothing for me. Connecting in a vague way that was meaningless left me cold.”

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

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332. “I’m not confused, baby, you are.”

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333. “You talk about Cal, you look like a woman who’s talkin’ about the man she needs to breathe.”

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

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335. “A woman like you should have had a momma who loved her. A daddy who adored her. Friends who thought the world of her. She should have grown up every day knowing that straight to her soul, never doubting it, not for a second.”

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336. “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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337. “I shook my head and kept my mouth shut. I hoped Tex was long gone and calling 911. I feared that Tex was close and planning Armageddon.”

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338. “What you did to us fuckin’ destroyed me and I never put the pieces back together.”

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339. “If Joe thought that simple and logical was going to work, he was in for a world of hurt living for two months with three females.”

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

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

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342. “We met. He asked me out. I said no. He gave me his card should I rethink. The end,” I told him. Luke looked to Lee. Mace looked to Vance. Hector looked back down at the card. Brody looked at me. “Why’d you say no?” “Have I ever struck you as a woman who shares her personal life?” I asked. “I was over at your house watching Tarzan two weeks ago and you pulled out your family albums,” Brody reminded me. “All twelve of them.” Damn. “I was drunk,” I lied.”

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343. “Gwen, baby, clue in. I was makin’ you mine.”

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344. “Tates response, Babe.”

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345. “I also knew that for three months, one of the things I seriously missed was making out with him.”

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346. “We fight wars over dirt and oil and ego when we should fight wars against men who force women to live that kind of life with their children.”

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347. “If you loved someone, you found a way to show it so the person you loved knew it.”

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348. “I was kind of in awe of Jet and Roxie, seeing as their stories had hit the paper then they’d had books written about their love affairs with their current husbands.”

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349. “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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350. “Totally could oust a government in a small South American country.” That made me laugh.”

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