Top 500 Kristen Ashley Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “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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302. “But, my wolf, 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. The one thing I know that’s even more powerful is the courage it takes to forge your own path, make your own mark and in doing so, make change.”

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

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

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306. “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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307. “The last time, even though I didn’t know it, you were taken from me. This time, if you leave, it’s all you.”

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308. “Tates response, Babe.”

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309. “You should know, Max and I are fighting and I won’t be speaking to him throughout dinner. I hope that won’t ruin anyone’s night.”

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310. “You said you were waitin’ for something special and he took away your chance to figure out that you were carryin’ it with you all this time. You are special, Laurie.”

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311. “He’d told me time and again to live my life, enjoy it, figure out who I was and what I wanted, and only then go out and find it. And when I did, not to settle for anything less.”

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312. “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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313. “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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314. “Anything about anyone is attractive as long as they’re the kind of person who can be attractive however that comes about. Including scars.”

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315. “He’d also dreamed of her laughing, burying her face in his chest, her dark hair all around, her mirth vibrating through his skin, his flesh, straight into his heart.”

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316. “He always had a few minutes. For Rush. Tabitha. Ty-Ty. Rider. Cutter. Any of his brothers. Any of their women. Any of their kids. Anyone in his heart.”

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317. “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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318. “He loved Violet. I knew that when he pulled out all the stops and made a miracle happen when he found us in the middle of nowhere in a forest and took a man’s life to save hers. He also loved her girls. And I loved that.”

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319. “He always had a different girlfriend and you could tell they were all easy but a nun would turn easy at one look at Luke.”

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320. “I would have had all I needed. I would have had everything if all I had was you. And you took away my shot to show you that.”

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321. “I am going to heal you, Carson Steele. It’s gonna happen. That’s it. No response necessary.”

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322. “I’m not saying we drop to the floor right now and start tryin’ for a baby and I’m not askin’ you to marry me. I am sayin’ that I care about you, I do it deeply and I have for a really fuckin’ long time. We’re gonna explore this and I hope to God the feelin’ I got is not wrong because I tried time and again to make it feel wrong but all it ever felt was right.” I.”

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

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324. “Experiencing connecting with someone in a way so meaningful, it shared just how connected all we beings were through a variety of sources. Music. Books. Art. Movies.”

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

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327. “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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328. “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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329. “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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330. “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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331. “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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332. “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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333. “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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334. “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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335. “Then he made love to me on a bed of rose petals. Seriously.”

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

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338. “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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339. “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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340. “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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341. “His girl? I was too freaked, and the subject was Jimmy Choos, so I didn’t ask about that.”

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

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

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345. “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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346. “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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347. “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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348. “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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349. “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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350. “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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