“Born to love you, baby,” he repeated. “Die lovin’ you, my Sylvie.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“You need me. You won’t stay away and you won’t let me go because, baby, you can’t breathe without me.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“You love me?” he asked quietly. I dipped my face close and answered quietly, “On a cold night, a long time ago, you put your hands almost exactly where they are right now and, I might have been six years old, but I fell hard. So, yeah. For over twenty-seven years, every day, every minute, every second, I’ve loved you, Tucker Creed.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“I’d move here. I’d move to the goddamned, fucking moon to wake up to you in my bed.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“It’s always you and me.” I nodded again and felt my lips quivering. He kept whispering, “Always me and my Sylvie, yeah?” “Yeah,” I whispered.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“I’m not what you want, Sylvie, I get that because it’s the same for you as it is for me. I’m not what you want ‘cause I’m what you need.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“Honest to Christ, give you anything. Anything, baby. But lost enough time. Can’t give you that. Space , maybe. Time. No.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“Some people get to live life. Some people survive it. We’re survivors. We can carve out our piece of happy, and, I swear to God, baby, right now, you got my vow, for you and for me, the rest of our lives, I’ll bust my ass to carve our piece of happy.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“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, quote from Creed
“Beauty,” he whispered.
“What?” I asked.
“Beauty. It’s pure beauty you don’t wanna be away from me. I don’t like that, baby. I love it”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“I stopped opposite the counter and looked back up at him. “Have I told you you’re an asshole today?”
“You just got up, so, no.”
“You’re an asshole.”
He grinned again.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“You know what love is?"
Creed asked that and my eyes shot from the hair on his forehead to his.
"I..." I swallowed again then, holding his eyes, I whispered, "Yes. I do. I know what love is, Creed."
I felt his big hand curl warm on the side of my face before I felt the pad of his thumb sweep across my lips again. He watched it move as he replied, "I do too, baby." His eyes came to mine. "I absolutely do.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“We make a baby, Sylvie, we do it making love. Not fucking on the kitchen floor.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“I gave you up once. It killed me. it was figuratively but it still killed me. I’m not doin’ that shit again.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“They took you away from me."
His hand squeezed mine, the pendants and chains digging into my skin.
"I'm back, baby.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“He crossed his arms again and requested, “You wanna stop aiming your weapon at me?”
Actually, no. I didn’t. I wanted to keep aiming my gun at him and I might also want to pull the trigger.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“Just so you know, I speak English. You don’t have to macho-speak with shit like ‘you with me’ after you macho-speak with a bunch of bossing me around. I get you. I’m with you. Or if I’m not, I’ll tell you.”
“Noted,” he muttered but sounded like he was smiling.
I made the diplomatic decision not to look.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“We been through a lot and you earned a piece of my heart, babe. It’s all yours and always will be.”
- Knight.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“I’ll take this. I’ll take this every day and every day I’ll know in the end I beat that bastard. He might not have been alive to see it, but I bet his goddamned, motherfucking ass.”
Seriously, he was hot when he was being all vengeful badass.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“But me, my jeans, tank, boots and socks, commando and braless, walked right out the door and, like we had many, many times before, we took on the night.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“I may have mentioned patience wasn't one of my virtues. Actually, I didn't have many virtues but patience definitely wasn't one of them.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“Come back to me,” I begged, the tear slipping over my eye and gliding down my cheek.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“Baby,” another voice came into my ear and this was my man’s, “shut the fuck up, concentrate and don’t sit there muttering into your tits makin’ it look like you’re waitin’ to fuck over some asshole. He sees you doin’ that shit, these guys we’re hunting will take you out and tonight is not my night to lose you.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“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.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“It was cool to wake up knowing your day would include someone else in a way that was integral to life.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“How you feel about marrying me?" he asked in my ear.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“You feed your cat once a day?” he asked, and I stopped opposite the bar and planted my hands on my hips. “Yeah,” I answered. “She says two,” Creed informed me. Shit. He spoke cat. This was not good. Gun knew all my secrets.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“I would work with him to make Knight’s troubles go away. In the meantime, I could jump a hot guy whenever I felt like it.
This was not a bad deal.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“some people get to live life. some people survive it. We're survivors. We can carve out our pieces of happy...But we're foolin' ourselves if we think we can set aside the shit that happened to us, the shit done to us, the shit we've done and move on. It'll be with us forever. We just gotta learn to live with it. We bury it, deny it or pretend it isn't there, we're fucked. It'll surface and tear us to shreds. We acknowledge it and keep on keepin' the fuck on, and we'll be good.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Creed
“Yesterday, when I took the stage for the sixth time, I read a poem about unreliable friends, people you love and feel bonded to but can never truly trust. It was about feeling alone and vulnerable, and never being able to fully let your guard down.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Every Last Word
“Where was Araceli? Ivy paced beneath the pepper trees where they always met, the winter limbs now naked with balled fists. Icy sprinkles stung her face. She whispered, “Hurry …”
― Pam Muñoz Ryan, quote from Echo
“Are you crazy?" The unexpected question threw him a moment. "I guess… if I was, I might not know it. And if I did know… I might not want to say." She”
― Lucian Bane, quote from Reginald Bones: Part One
“The precept: “Judge not, that ye be not judged” . . . is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself.
There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.
The moral principle to adopt in this issue, is: “Judge, and be prepared to be judged.”
― Ayn Rand, quote from The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
“When you are in doubt as to which you should serve forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle for this is everything.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
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