“You know you, two can snog in the kitchen. It will be sick, but we'll get used to it.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Fairytale Come Alive
“Don’t let her go. She needs you to save her. She needs her knight in shining armor, not a man who’d let her go. This is twice, Prentice, and you don’t even know this is all on you. Twenty years, and it’s all YOU. You should have gone to save her the last time and you let her go. This is the same. She isn’t leaving you, she has this idea that she’s saving you. This is NOT her LEAVING. This is YOU LETTING HER GO”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Fairytale Come Alive
“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, quote from Fairytale Come Alive
“When you’re away from him and you realize this is madness, you find me, you call me, you write me, I don’t give a fuck what you do.”
I’ll be pissed off, baby, and I’ll make you work for it. But I love you enough to get over it and take you back. I promise you that.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Fairytale Come Alive
“She stopped pushing but declared; "Prentice, I know how this works. Sure, she seems fine now. But in fifteen years when she's standing on top of a clocktower with an automatic rifle mowing down innocent bystanders, dont't call ME asking what went wrong.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Fairytale Come Alive
“If you stay, in a week, a month, ten years, it will eventually sink in that I left you to that. I didn’t protect you. I didn’t believe in you. What do I do when the bitterness creeps in, Elle, and you can’t bear to be with me anymore? What do I do?”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Fairytale Come Alive
“I’m not confused, baby, you are.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Fairytale Come Alive
“You’re saying… I can be free?”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Fairytale Come Alive
“The last time, even though I didn’t know it, you were taken from me. This time, if you leave, it’s all you.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Fairytale Come Alive
“Sally didn’t waste any time getting Prentice up to speed. “Mister Mikey says we can call Mrs. Evangahlala, Miss Bella and I’m doing the crunchy and smushy bits for dinner.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Fairytale Come Alive
“Fiona had spent months choosing furniture, spent years buying and even paying off paintings that she’d found, deliberated greatly over the frames she’d buy to put her family’s photos in.
The blinds…
The crockery…
The… the…
The nerve!”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Fairytale Come Alive
“Elle, you get in that car and drive away, that’s it. You leave me and the children this time, if you get second thoughts and you come back, I’ll no’ make you work for it. There’ll be nothing to work for.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Fairytale Come Alive
“I changed my mind,” he cut her off. “I don’t want to talk. I don’t want any explanations. I don’t give a fuck. I just want you.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Fairytale Come Alive
“I told you, baby, when you came back to me, I’d make you work for it but I’d take you back. You may not want to be back but I don’t give a fuck. I’m keeping you this time.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Fairytale Come Alive
“You’re saying....I can be free?”
Prentice closed his eyes slowly but briefly.
Then he put both his hands on her jaw and tipped her face up to his, getting close, his body against hers. “Baby, with me, you can be whatever the fuck you want to be. But most especially, you can be free.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Fairytale Come Alive
“I’ll no’ let you go,” he vowed, his voice so rough, it was hoarse … “Never. I’ll never let you go.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Fairytale Come Alive
“You love me,” he declared.
“With everything that I am,” Elle confirmed, his eyes closed slowly and his arms squeezed her tight.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Fairytale Come Alive
“I’ve had a good life, you know that,” he whispered. “Even so, you’re the best thing that’s been in it.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Fairytale Come Alive
Kristen Ashley
Born place: in Gary, Indiana, The United States
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“Yes. This, all that's happening now, this is your bat mitzvah. You can play with atoms, you can sit with the grown-ups."
"What does that mean for us?"
"That means you won't be forgiven for childhood mistakes anymore.”
― Sylvain Neuvel, quote from Sleeping Giants
“An Albanian’s house is the dwelling of God and the guest.’ Of God and the guest, you see. So before it is the house of its master, it is the house of one’s guest. The guest, in an Albanian’s life, represents the supreme ethical category, more important than blood relations. One may pardon the man who spills the blood of one’s father or of one’s son, but never the blood of a guest.”
― Ismail Kadare, quote from Broken April
“I clarified that I myself was Colombian.
"What is 'being Colombian'?"
"I'm not sure," I replied. "It's an act of faith."
"Like being Norwegian," she said, nodding.
I can recall nothing further of what was said that night.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, quote from The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
“His books commingled democratically, united under the all-inclusive flag of Literature. Some were vertical, some horizontal, and some actually placed behind others. Mine were balkanized by nationality and subject matter.”
― Anne Fadiman, quote from Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
“I would not have survived that dark time if it weren't for Cloudtail. He gave me another destiny, and I knew that no matter what I looked like, I would be all right. As long as Cloudtail loved me, I was no longer Lostface, but Brightheart.”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Secrets of the Clans
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