Top 500 Kristen Ashley Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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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352. “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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353. “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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354. “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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355. “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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356. “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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357. “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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358. “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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359. “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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360. “I have my own stalker, Joe. I don’t want to have to deal with yours.”

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361. “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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362. “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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363. “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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364. “The instant I caught sight of him, I froze. He was tall. His eyes were the color of the ocean. And he made me believe that I could want something, take it and have it. Own it. Keep it. Something precious would be mine.”

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365. “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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366. “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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367. “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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368. “I’m not going to work in a place where I can’t eat donuts.”

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369. “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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370. “You good?” he asked. Her answer was, “I have you.” He liked that answer but he had to be sure and he communicated this by saying, “Babe.” She got him and he knew this when she reiterated with emphasis, “Yes, Jake, of course I’m good. I have you.”

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

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372. “This is give-and-take, you and me. You gotta learn to let me give so that means you gotta learn to take.” “And when do I give and you take?” “Every day, sometimes more than once, when you tell me you really like me when you mean somethin’ else and I know my future includes hearin’ you comin’ home sayin’ ‘hey, puppy’ to Buford.”

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373. “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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374. “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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375. “Sahnahsoo nahna Dax neenkah, kah Dahksahna,” he murmured. Let your King inside, my Queen.”

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376. “You never cut it.”

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377. “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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378. “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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379. “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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380. “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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381. “Duchess, you can argue about anything.”

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

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384. “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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385. “Tates response, Babe.”

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386. “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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387. “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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388. “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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389. “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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390. “It’s extremely improper for me to call a young teenaged boy a douche,” I stated and everyone looked at me. “That said, Taylor is right. He was definitely a douche.”

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391. “Yeah. I’m like Yoda except taller, younger and hotter.”

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392. “Rocky’s made you soft,” he returned. “That is one thing your sister has never made me.” Garrett felt his lip curl. “Christ.”

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393. “Babe, you’re standing in my arm, in my house, drinking my wine after agreeing in the kitchen.” “I haven’t even sipped the wine,” I pointed out. His lips twitched. Twitched! I made Knight Sebring’s lips twitch! “Right, well, you will,” he muttered. “And I didn’t agree to anything,” I went on. Another lip twitch. Then a repeated, “Right, well, you will.”

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394. “Holy crap, this is Dynasty except British with a better wardrobe and set in the early 1900s,” I whispered to the TV.”

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395. “Tack walked to his kids, grabbing Tabby behind her head first. He pulled her in and kissed the top. He repeated this with his son.”

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396. “She was three years ago, Eliza. I loved her. That fact doesn’t change. I loved her and she wrecked me when she left because that was how much I loved her. I’m not going to apologise for that or deny it or walk on eggshells with you about it while we figure out what we got and why it’s so fuckin’ good and so fuckin’ intense and so fuckin’ everything.”

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397. “Just think of me as the shoe fairy.” Then he acted like he was bonking me on the head with an imaginary magic wand, “Make your own good memories in those shoes.” I gaped for a second, and then he winked at me. I couldn’t help it, so I smiled at him and then turned to Indy.”

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398. “Count your lucky stars you’re able to hold tight to your woman so you can weather the goddamned storm.”

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399. “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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400. “I’d eat a picnic in Hades with him.”

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