Wherever you are, however you got there, if it's good, you're meant to be there either because you earned it or life led you there, and you were smart enough to hold on.

— Kristen Ashley

With women, it’s about the slow soak, babe. Assholes pour shit on the surface and women keep goin’ not even knowin’ that shit is soakin’ in. Then one day, out of fuckin’ nowhere, that acid has burned deep in a way it leaves a wound that will never heal. Wipe that shit away, Lanai. Don’t let it soak in. He doesn’t know me. He cannot make that call about me.

— Kristen Ashley

Women like clothes, they like shoes, they like flowers, and they like people to look at them and think, ‘God, she’s gorgeous.’ The more people who think that, the better it is. The one day in your life where you get all that rolled up into one is your wedding day. And incomes with jewelry and presents and ends with a vacation where it’s practically law that you have to wear fabulous underwear and have lots of sex.

— Kristen Ashley

Yeah, you lose this attitude, I can help you work that hurt out.” Who was this man? He held onto his tragedy for seventeen fucking years, how could he stand there and tell mere could help me work through mine?“Really, Joe? Like you helped me work out my grief at losing Tim?” I asked sarcastically.“That’s not what I was offerin’, buddy, but you want it like that I’ll give it to you.”“You’re unbelievable,” I snapped.”I’m yours.” That socked me in the gut too, so hard it winded me and all I could do was stare up at him. Taking advantage, his face dipped close, and his hands curled around both sides of my head.“First fuckin’ time you smiled at me in my bed, that’s when it happened,” he murmured.

— 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

You’d throw yourself in front of a bus for me.” She would and he knew it. He knew it and she knew that he felt that knowledge burrow deep, and he liked it. Elle felt tears stinging the backs of her eyes, her body melted into his, her arms tightened around him, and she whispered back, “Yes, Pren, though I hope I never get the chance.

— Kristen Ashley

You fight with Nile's?" Max asked suddenly." No."" Never?"" No! And stop asking about Nile's," I demanded. He ignored my demand and kept questioning. "Didn't care enough to fight, didn't match you in fire, or was so lazy he just put up with your shit?

— Kristen Ashley

You have a cat and go on vacation, you know who to call. Though, I warn you, I do both dry and wet food. I’m not into doin’ just wet or just dry. They need a treat, but they need to keep their teeth clean. It’s important.”-Tex Rock Chick

— Kristen Ashley

You love me?'' Baby, you were made for me.

— Kristen Ashley

You’re beautiful, Minnie, 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

— Kristen Ashley