Kristen Ashley Quotes & Sayings

If you'd given yourself to someone else, you wouldn't be mine. And that would seriously piss me off. — Kristen Ashley

You're not safe to go back there," he said.
"I'm going," I returned.
"We'll see."
Jeez, there was just no shaking this guy.
"You do know that there's this little thing called the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the right to vote?" I asked.
"I heard of that," he said and there was a smile in his voice.
"And there's this whole movement called fem ... in ... is ... im." I said it slowly, like he was a dim child. "Where women started working, demanding equal pay for equal work, raising their voices on issues of the day, taking back the night, stuff like that."
He rolled into me, which made me roll onto my back.
"Sounds familiar."
"Do you have an encyclopedia? Maybe we can look it up. If the words are too big for you to read, I'l read it out loud and explain as I go along."
He got up on his elbow. "Only if you do it naked." I slapped his shoulder. — Kristen Ashley

It's all right, baby doll, I've got you. — Kristen Ashley

What is this?" I ventured.
"The start of you and me. — Kristen Ashley

I gave his a squeeze and relaxed beside him, wondering if this was how it felt.
If this was how it felt to get what you wanted for a lifetime.
Have it stretched out beside you.
The promise of it there all night so you'd wake up to it in the morning.
The promise of it going to work the next day with you knowing it was coming back.
A promise that would stay a promise-beautiful, forever there, beckoning, even as minute by minute it was being fulfilled, leaving you taking your last breath on earth knowing you lived a life filled with beauty.
If it was, it was weirdly serene.
You'd think something that magnificent would be about fireworks.
But if this was it, it wasn't.
It was quiet, tranquil, comfortable.
Beauty. — Kristen Ashley

Women don't buy with me," he said quietly. "I get it, women's lib and all, got no problem with that. But you're with me, I pay. No discussion, definitely no stupid-ass fight. That's just the way it is with me. — Kristen Ashley

Fair warning, Jet. I'm making you my business. — Kristen Ashley

I need to gag you and tie you to the bed, he declared.
Oh God.
Awesome. — Kristen Ashley

Tack studied him. Then quietly, he stated, "She's my only daughter, man."
"And she's the only woman I've ever loved, Tack," Shy shot back instantly. — Kristen Ashley

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. — Kristen Ashley

That kiss was hard, wet, long and involved a goodly deal of hand exploration, both his and mine. It was the kind of kiss you had to celebrate a momentous occasion. It was the kind of kiss you never forgot your whole life. When he broke the connection of our mouths, he rested his forehead to mine and whispered, I'll look forward to you making my house ours, Feb. — Kristen Ashley

When I told Mom we were goin' out, she did a grab-and-hold stupid girlie hop."
Garrett started chuckling.
Cher kept talking.
"She called you the last good one standing."
She let that hang, then finished, "No pressure, though."
He burst out laughing. — Kristen Ashley

You taste injustice, even if it's fictional, really taste it,it has a way of doing that. Sometimes, you can never put the shoe on the other foot. We can't go back in time and know what it was like to be a black person then. Even today, when things are supposed to be so much better, not one of you can understand what it's like to be black, to live with the knowledge of what happened to your ancestry and still face injustice. But that book makes us taste it and, reading it, we know how bitter that taste is and we know we don't like it. But that bitter wakes you up, and when you wake up, you open your mind to things in this world, you make yourself think. Then you'll decide you don't like the taste of injustice, not for you and not for anyone, and you'll understand that even though all the battles can't be won, that doesn't mean you won't fight. — Kristen Ashley

Think God's got bigger concerns in his house than me droppin' the f-bomb, sweetcheeks. — Kristen Ashley

She gave me her jewelry and a shitload of money, but only gave Marilyn and Sofia a token, which pissed them off big time but they'd always been mean to her and I hadn't, so fuck them. — Kristen Ashley

Heart and soul, belly and womb, I love you too, Deacon. — Kristen Ashley

All mine," he muttered. "Christ, finally, all mine. — Kristen Ashley

I know you're freaked, I know you're scared and I know you can come up with a million reasons that you're not ready, all of which will be excuses. But now that I know exactly what's behind those shields you got up ... you gotta know that knowin' that makes me no less into you ... In fact, it makes me more into you ... And you'll learn, because I'll prove it to you, I'll never hurt you. — Kristen Ashley

He wasn't falling in love.
She had him.
He was hers. — Kristen Ashley

Then and now, beautiful, I'll take you any way you come to me ... Any way. I love this Sylvie, I loved that Sylvie. I just love you, baby. — Kristen Ashley

It would seem big, scary, badass, looking-like-a raving-lunatic Ryker needed his BFF. — Kristen Ashley

You don't fuck Knight. No way. Knight fucks you. — Kristen Ashley

When gettin' off wasn't worth puttin' up with her, I ended it — Kristen Ashley

Did that just happen?" I whispered.
"Yep," Hawk replied, grabbed my hand and tugged me to the door. "My dad just saw us making out with your hand on my ass," I added detail, just to confirm. Hawk opened the door and pulled me through, repeating, "Yep."
"Well, at least I got my Jimmy Choos before I died. Now you can take me to the nearest railway crossing and I'll throw myself in front of a train. — Kristen Ashley

You can't cushion me from the entire world, Knight."
"I can try. — Kristen Ashley

God, if he wasn't so handsome, strong,
sometimes sweet, didn't have a Harley, that beard, a tendency to play with my hair, didn't look so good in jeans and wasn't so danged good in bed, he would seriously not be worth it. — Kristen Ashley

Aunt Bette." I started squirming toward her voice. "Are you okay?" "No, I'm not okay. We've been kidnapped and Marsh is drinking martinis and probably flirting with the waitress!" she snapped, and it sounded like she too was moving but not in my direction. — Kristen Ashley

Hubby,
At the pool. If I don't return by nightfall, it's your marital duty to rescue me. If it goes that late, this means I've passed out on a lounge chair in Vegas in summer so my advice is to stock up on aloe vera before you launch the rescue effort.
Lexie
Walker stared at the note thinking that Alexa Berry ... Strike that. Alexa Walker was fucking funny. — Kristen Ashley

Belonging to me doesn't mean I'll make you do anything, it just means I consider you mine for as long as this lasts. It means I protect you, it means I take care of you. For another man, it might mean something different. Don't confuse me with another man — Kristen Ashley

That top," he said when he dipped his face close, and I realized his voice sounded funny. It was intense but it was also hoarse like when we were fooling around and I understood why when he again spoke. "Tonight, when I fuck you, I want you naked. Later, I want you ridin' my cock wearin' nothin' but that fuckin' top. — Kristen Ashley

His kiss was a once in a lifetime kiss. It was the kind of thorough, heart-melting, stomach-plummeting, mind-numbing, soul-enriching kiss that altered lives. — Kristen Ashley

We intend to take this through the long haul, we commit to thick and thin. — Kristen Ashley

Instinct told him whatever just happened had to do with the February Owens he loved becoming an altogether different February Owens. — Kristen Ashley

Faye, honey, breathe." — Kristen Ashley

Oh no.
A talk without me talking.
That was definitely was not good. — Kristen Ashley

At the sight of him my clit started tingling. — Kristen Ashley

And a woman tied to me I couldn't even build in a dream. You can move on. You do not need to do what you — Kristen Ashley

They were simply meant to be.
He understood this was a ludicrously romantic notion.
And he didn't give a fuck. — Kristen Ashley

Because in that moment, watching and listening, he was profoundly moved that God had seen fit to gift him, an ordinary man, an Indiana boy through and through, with these people in his life. — Kristen Ashley

Then he spoke. "For us, it will be real and right now, I need to know you understand that." "Understand?" "That it's real." "That what's real?" "That we will be together until the sun falls from the sky. — Kristen Ashley

Then Miah whispered, "Your hair."
Chace opened his eyes. "What buddy?"
Miah leaned back but didn't let go, looked up at Chace with his red eyes and kept whispering, "Your hair. Lion's hair."
Chace didn't get it but forced his own smile and replied quietly, "Okay."
Miah let him go, Chace's arms dropped away, Miah's chin quivered but his eyes didn't waver from Chace's when he whispered, "You're my Aslan."
Aslan.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Holy fuck. — Kristen Ashley

walkin' around with a hole in my soul, — Kristen Ashley

We're not exactly together and were not, not together. We're in together-limbo. We're test-driving together to see if we want to buy it. — Kristen Ashley

How can one day you have next to nothing and then a week and a day later you have everything? — Kristen Ashley

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. — Kristen Ashley

You shouldn't have laughed."
"Pardon?"
"I might have let you be, but you laughed — Kristen Ashley

A dove has great beauty, but is easily broken. — Kristen Ashley

Possessiveness was hot. A man who staked his claim, marked his territory. It wasn't about lack of trust. It was about belonging to someone. It was about them having pride in that and wanting everyone to know it, especially you. — Kristen Ashley

On a scale of one to ten, how important is this?" I queried.
"Me doin' my bit so I don't feel like you're keepin' me?" he asked.
"Yes," I answered.
"Eighty-five. — Kristen Ashley

All the rest of days, every one, every day since I first laid eyes on you. Today's no different. Fuck of it was, even when I didn't have you, I felt it. Which was why I never let go. And today's no different. No different from every day I had from the first day we met. Waking up in love with you. Day's almost done, gonna go to sleep more in love with you. — Kristen Ashley

Baby, you stare at my dick any longer, Miss Mildred's gonna have to send out a search party."
... "I was staring at your hip muscles," I corrected.
"Whatever," he muttered, his lips now smiling too, then louder, "just sayin', anything in that vicinity, your eyes on it, it'll get thoughts on its own."
"So noted," I mumbled. — Kristen Ashley

I was done with men. Totally and completely. I was looking forward to a life as a cat lady. I was going to get a dozen cats and a fucking great vibrator, maybe one of those rabbits I heard about, and that was it. — Kristen Ashley

He is my king, he is my warrior, he is my husband and I am proud to say above all ... he is mine. — Kristen Ashley

Go to him, Sweet Pea. — Kristen Ashley

I never dreamed any fuckin' dream," he whispered, and the smile faded from her face as tears filled her eyes.
She understood him.
"Shy-"
"Didn't dream it, saw it, waited my time, and then you gave it to me. — Kristen Ashley

I'd been knocked down. Again and again. I just kept getting up. And I was still standing, in platforms, with great hair. — Kristen Ashley

I think I've made it relatively clear you bein' bossy isn't my favorite thing," I told him.
"It is when you're wet for me," he returned.
It sucked, but he had a point. — Kristen Ashley

I knew why I was there and I didn't. I was scared and I wasn't. I didn't feel right and I did. I didn't know what to do but I still knew what I had to do. I wasn't me. Yet I was. — Kristen Ashley

I have a question." Stark looked to me. "Can you kick Chuck Norris's ass?"
Luke Stark smiled, white and lazy.
My heart thumped.
"I strive to be Chuck Norris," he replied. — Kristen Ashley

You can't win at everything in life, Tate," I said softly, "He should learn that." "You're right, Ace, you can't. But you can learn from losin' how not to lose again. Or at least not make the same mistakes. — Kristen Ashley

She stared at his handsome face.
He was good-looking. No doubt about it.
But he was crazy as a loon — Kristen Ashley

I'm sorry," I said softly, but loud enough for him to hear. "I've been to my fair share of exhibitions, only yours made my heart hurt because my system couldn't process the beauty that met my eyes. — Kristen Ashley

Baby, get a handle on it. — Kristen Ashley

Cal would go commando on Jasper's ass. — Kristen Ashley

You don't have to have had something to want it or need it but when you have something you liked ... very much ... and it is taken away, and you want it back, it can become a hunger. — Kristen Ashley

Then he made love to me on a bed of rose petals. Seriously. — Kristen Ashley

Oh but the gods do so love me," I shared softly. "To give me a man who would allow his soul to be taken over by the darkness of night, for he's a man who loves so deeply, he lost those who had his love, was cast into the shadows, and he refuses to crawl to the light. — Kristen Ashley

Been waitin' years for this, baby. Thanks for makin' it worth the wait."
"You're still bein' awesome," I informed him.
"Yeah, and it's cute as fuck that annoys you. — Kristen Ashley

And his hair was free, no ponytail, no braid, the long thickness of it waved and curled down his back, over his shoulders and next to his face. I felt my lungs start burning. Holy freaking moly ... my husband was hot! — Kristen Ashley

We were never fuck buddies, Ally. — Kristen Ashley

Jake felt suddenly raw. Humble. Grateful. Honored. Loved. — Kristen Ashley

Had no fuckin' clue how deep you ran."
"What?" I whispered.
"Everything you do, what you eat, what you drink, how you live, how you love, how you work, all of it runs deep. You give it everything. It means everything to you." His hand suddenly caught mine that was resting on my thigh and he gave it a squeeze. "Come here, baby."
I bent to him and his hand went to the small of my back, sliding up my spine and into my hair.
"Teach that to our kids, will you? — Kristen Ashley

I sucked in so much air it was a wonder Hawk didn't immediately pass out due to lack of oxygen. — Kristen Ashley

Lee looked amused. I knew this because he was smiling so much he looked like he was about to burst out laughing. — Kristen Ashley

I had nothing left to give.
I not only had nothing left to give, I just had nothing.
And I was going to keep it that way.
If you had nothing, you couldn't feel more pain because you had nothing left to lose. — Kristen Ashley

The girls were there, her friends, her parents and he didn't give a fuck. He dipped in closer and kissed her lightly on the lips. — Kristen Ashley

I looked at the hit man who was watching us closely and told him, "Don't think in the crazy-ass soap opera that is my life that I've forgotten about you. Or you," I said to Rosie. — Kristen Ashley

Right so, I like girls. And I've liked 'em all my life. I was a marine. I've shot a gun. I own five of them, guns that is. I watch the Nuggets, Avs, Broncos and Rockies. I've never in my life worn a skirt. I wear a sports bra because with these babies," she circled her bosoms with a pointed finger before dropping her hand to the checkout desk, "I got no choice. God saw fit to grant me an A cup, no way. Since I'm a C, I'm fucked. I have never worn mascara. I do not own a blow dryer. And I get off on goin' down on chicks. Now which one, you or me, has more in common with Chace Keaton? — Kristen Ashley

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. — Kristen Ashley

My woman gets off on watchin' her man fight," he murmured in my ear. "Yes," I whispered. — Kristen Ashley

He might be scary but scary never eradicated hot. — Kristen Ashley

I shouldn't have asked you about where we're goin' from here because I don't give a fuck about where you think we're goin'. — Kristen Ashley

Are you asking me to marry you, honey?"
"No, I'm tellin' you by the end of this year you'll be wearing my rings, bearing my name and, probably, pregnant with my baby. — Kristen Ashley

Seoafin,
Tonight, you marry The Drakkar. In the ancient tongue, this means The Dragon.
Good luck,
Sjofn — Kristen Ashley

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? — Kristen Ashley

I see it Kia, and I get this is gonna take effort. But what I'm sensin' is, you don't notice I'm makin' that effort. Don't fuck up, baby, and, out of habit, reinforce your shields to hold back a threat that doesn't exist. You get me? — Kristen Ashley

Keep sayin' Joe, baby, you're makin' me hard. — Kristen Ashley

Don't take away my fun." She smiled and leaned my way. "Every Friday, him in my yard, sweatin' and mowin' my lawn. Even old women need a thrill." She settled back and closed her eyes. "That right there's gonna be mine." If — Kristen Ashley

He wanted more.
With Maddie, he always wanted more.
But he had to win that before she gifted it to him.
And he would. — Kristen Ashley

We needed to talk about a lot of things and I needed not to have sex with him again. I was beginning to think I was giving him the wrong impression. — Kristen Ashley

That was when I lost it. I couldn't take any more. Not with him that close, his deep voice that sweet, his hand on me, his eyes looking into mine like he could see into my soul. — Kristen Ashley

My hands were useless, his arms locked around me, his head came down on a slant and his mouth hit mine. — Kristen Ashley

And I didn't know how to feel the feeling I was feeling. — Kristen Ashley

Never before, never since have I felt for any woman, fuck anyone the way I felt about you. I want that back. I want my girl back. — Kristen Ashley

Baby," his voice gentled, "this is me seein' to that soft spot when I say quiet-like that I ... will ... be ... there ... in ten. And what I mean is, when I get there in ten, your ass better be there."
Oh boy.
"Are you coming on your bike?"
"Yeah."
"I'm in a tight, short, little aquamarine dress with high heels. I can't get on a bike.
"You're in a tight, short dress and high heels?" Tack asked.
"Yes."
"I'll be in there in five. — Kristen Ashley

No matter how many years pass, it means something to a parent when their child needs them. At first, kids need you so much, all you want them to do is grow up so they can do things for themselves. Then you learn. You learn you should have savored every time they reached for you or called your name. — Kristen Ashley

No, I want your mouth between my legs. Then I want to watch you ride my cock. When we've both climaxed and my seed is dripping from inside you, I'll explain about Brunskar. — Kristen Ashley

I was a cold motherfucker, off the grid, no life, no home, no ties, no emotions, everyone knew it. Until I came back to some rundown cabins I'd been to before that were off the beaten path. Perfect place for the minimal downtime I let myself have. Quiet place. A place no one could find m — Kristen Ashley

Yes or no, sweetheart," ... "Um and uh aren't options, baby. — Kristen Ashley

I do this thing for Rosie, you sleep with me"
I stared at him, open-mouthed and in stunned silence.
I did, of course, understand what he meant but he explained further.
"Not like last night, we'll both be naked and sexual acts will be performed."
My expression didn't change except maybe my mouth opened wider.
"I'll expect your participation."
Holly shit.
"Your avid participation."
Dear Lord in Heaven.
Eventually, I whispered, "You must be joking."
He shook his head and watched me.
I dropped my eyes, unable to hold his stqare.
"I think I need more coffee," I told his throat. — Kristen Ashley