He put the knuckles of his fist to the table, leaned toward Nile's and spoke quietly, cuttingly, in his rough, gravelly voice.“Fucked her last night, man, and this morning. Five times. Five. It was like she hadn’t been touched in a decade. So fuckin’ sweet. Damn,” he taunted, his eyes locked on Nile's. “You’ve had her, you have to know, not enough money in the world’s worth that.

— Kristen Ashley

His tongue felt good, it tasted good, it was all just good. Not just good. It was better than good. I missed this. I loved kissing and, Lord, did I miss it.

— Kristen Ashley

Home isn’t a place. Home is anywhere, just as long as the people you love are there.

— Kristen Ashley

However, at fourteen years old, she didn’t understand that all those terrible troubles the heroines in her books went through in real life

— Kristen Ashley

How lonely I was, even when I was with him. How it felt, him not making love to me, being affectionate, making me feel desired or desirable. How much it bothered me that, even though I'd talked to him about all of this, even wrote him other e-mails, it didn't ever seem to penetrate.

— Kristen Ashley

How you feel about marrying me?" he asked in my ear.

— Kristen Ashley

I couldn't ignore the fact that it felt good. So. Very. Good. To be held, in bed, in the arms of a tall, strong, handsome man.

— Kristen Ashley

I’d eat a picnic in Hades with him.

— Kristen Ashley

I’d had a terrible day, and you hurt me.” His hand at my jaw tensed, and he kept whispering when he said, “I’ll probably do it again, Red, because I’m a man and any man can be a dick. But I won’t do it like that, not again. I know you got soft under that attitude, and I’ll have a mind to that.

— Kristen Ashley

I’d once had a long-term relationship with a Five Point Five that got nowhere near living together. This was because I was a Two Point Five, he was a Five Point Five and he wanted a Nine Point Five. Therefore, we were both destined for a broken heart. He gave me mine. He later found a Six Point Five that wanted a Nine Point Five. She got herself a breast enhancement and nose job which made her a firm Seven (if you didn’t count the fact that she thought she was a Ten point Five and acted like it which really knocked her down to a Six) who broke his heart.

— Kristen Ashley