“Since I was three, there’s never been a day when I wasn’t in love with you.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“The only precious things in life breathe.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“Romeo and Juliet, say they didn’t die but Juliet got pissed and took off. Everyone would know it was Romeo and Juliet, would always be Romeo and Juliet, even if later Romeo hooked up with Nancy. No one ever heard of Nancy, doesn’t even sound right, Romeo and Nancy. Everyone knows Romeo’s meant to be with Juliet. Even if Romeo loved Nancy, Nancy would always know she was never Juliet”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“An Omelet a la Feb,” she corrected him.
“I can’t say that,” he told her.
“Why not?”
“I’m a man, Feb. I don’t say shit like, ‘a la’ anything.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“Trusting someone nice to you doesn’t make you a moron. It makes the person who fucked you over an asshole.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“Hurts, doesn’t it?” I asked.
“What?”
“Keepin’ your mouth shut for once.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“We’d been back together for four days. I thought that was pretty much the definition of ‘too soon’. Then again, we’d known each other for thirty-nine years and that was undeniably the definition of ‘about fucking time’.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“Like it right now or not, Feb, couple days ago, you gave yourself back to me. You think I’m lettin’ that go, think again because, baby, you’re fucking wrong.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“Okay, is it me, or is anyone else having a problem with deciding whether to have a heart attack or an orgasm?” Meems asked.
“Orgasm,” Jessie said instantly.
“Yep, same here,” Dee put in.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“Lonely’s a different kind of pain, it doesn’t hurt as bad as heartbreak. I preferred it and embraced it ‘cause I reckoned it was one or the other.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“I remember everything about you and I remember all the reasons why I loved you. Never could forget even when I tried.”
..
“Who knows, baby? We had all that time together, I coulda got used to it, learned to take it for granted.” His arms gave me a squeeze. “Now, that’ll never happen”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“I used to sleep the sleep of someone who knew she was loved. Now, I didn't.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“For the first time in twenty-two years after the jaw tilt, Feb didn’t take her eyes off him. And for the first time in twenty-two years, he gave her a smile.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“I’ve moved on, Colt.”
“Bullshit, Feb, you’re stuck, same as me.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“Hey, Reece.”
There was nothing but silence for a while and I waited.
Then Reece said, “Expected it to happen eventually, darlin’, but didn’t expect it to hit me that hard the first time I heard a man answer your phone.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“There’s no words to explain how big it was, what Cold and I had, or how much it hurts when something that big in your life is swept away, or how empty that place is that he once filled, or how impossible it is to find something to fill it.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“Jesus, she called her cat "Mr. Purrsie Purrs." Colt didn't know much about cats but he knew hers wasn't a stupid one and if the damn thing understood English and recognized this affront to his dignity he'd scratch her eyes out.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“He'd been right the day before. Twenty-two years of her laughter, her smile, her body, her jewelry on his kitchen counter, he might have gotten used to it and moments like this would have been lost on him. Now he knew that he'd never miss these moments and he'd always feel that beautiful pain because he'd always understand how precious they were.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“This isn’t a decision I can make, you gotta make it, honey. You wanna go away and wait this out, I’ll be with you. You wanna stay and life your life as normal as you can, I’ll do what I can to protect you.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“I'm gonna get in his face," Jackie whispered her threat and Colt couldn't help it, he smiled into his phone. Jackie got a hold of him, hatchet or not, Denny Lowe didn't stand a chance. A lioness was lethal when her cubs were under threat.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“But she and her mother were something else. Something that glimmered far brighter than gold. Something that made you believe there was a God but He didn’t make miracles. He created beings and gave them the power to make miracles, miracles both great and small.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“Lonely’s a different kind of pain, it doesn’t hurt as bad as heartbreak.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“Colt looked at her and said, “The only things precious in life breathe.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“Seems to be there’s advantage to be taken, son, and ain’t no one in a hundred mile radius would blame you for takin’ it.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“He was hearing Stevie Nicks singing in his head when Colt fell asleep in the bed, in the house, with the woman at his side that life meant him to have. After waiting for forty-four years, for the fifth night in a row, Alexander Colton was finally living the life he was meant to be living.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“Something that made you believe there was a God but he didn’t make miracles. He created beings and gave them the power to make miracles, miracles both great and small.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“They didn't understand, it not being directed at them, what that smile could do. The power of it. It was like every time he smiled he'd opened a chest of treasure and said, "All this is yours.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“Because I have nailed her and trust me, you had her once, you’d go back for more.” “Aw,” Dee said, “that’s kind of sweet.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
“She gave all she could so we could let it go.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from For You
Kristen Ashley
Born place: in Gary, Indiana, The United States
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“Being heard and understood is “one of the greatest desires of the human heart.”
― Richard Carlson, quote from Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life
“She’d never had feelings about any man that were important enough to be real romantic love. Affection, lust, yes those things. Instants in time with someone that had touched her, yes that too. But she found no one for romance that she could look up to, that was real , an individual that wasn’t made up of bits and pieces of clichés, buffeted about on the tide of their wants and the opinions of others, no goal, no point of view that they understood themselves why they held it.
She had researched him when she was assigned to protect him, she told him.
She had not understood in the
beginning.
“You were a man that had it all! Worthy and courageous military action; you grew up, came of age in war. A successful career, status in letters, a full professorship at a prestigious university if you wanted it. Accrued wealth and income enough to live however you wanted. Beautiful women in your life … you do not show the full measure of your years in either looks or fitness.
“You were a full fledged member of the oligarchy, though at a modest level. Yet you threw it all away! You started your novel, became a thorn in the side of the establishment,” she told him. “I didn’t understand until I read the fragment of manuscript that you had Jean Augereau print out for you. You were on a crusade … totally focused! I saw that you were something special then,” she told him, “That’s when you began to become very special to me!”
― William C. Samples, quote from Fe Fi FOE Comes
“...'I, Jehovah your God, am grasping your right hand,
The One saying to you, "Do not be afraid. I will help you."'
– Isaiah 41:13”
― quote from New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
“Arthur managed to speak to his grandmother [Queen Eleanor of England], demanding that she evacuate the castle with all her possessions and then go peaceably wherever she wished, for he wanted to show nothing but honour to her person. The Queen replied that she would not leave it, but if he behaved as a courtly gentlemen, he would quit this place, for he would find plenty of castles to attack other than the one she was in.”
― Alison Weir, quote from Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
“Come here, Amanda." His voice was a low scrape of sound.
"Oh, I can't," she said unsteadily. "I-I think you should go now."
Jack leaned forward and caught her wrist gently in his fingers. "I won't hurt you," he whispered. "I won't do anything that you don't like. But before I leave you this evening, I'm going to hold you in my arms."
Confusion and desire swirled inside her, making her feel unanchored, helpless. She let him pull her forward until her short limbs rested stiffly against his much longer ones. He ran a large palm down her back, and she could feel a trail of sensation in its wake. His skin was hot, as if a fire burned right beneath the smooth golden surface.
Her breath shortened, and she closed her eyes, shivering, luxuriating in the feeling of being warm all the way down to her bones. For the first time in her life, she let her head fall into the waiting crook of a man's arm, and stared up at his shadowed face.
As he felt the trembling of her limbs, he made a crooning sound and cuddled her closer. "Don't be afraid, mhuirnin. I won't hurt you."
"What did you call me?" she asked in bewilderment.
He smiled down at her. "A small endearment. Did I neglect to mention that I'm half Irish?"
That explained his accent, the neat cultured tones tempered with a sort of musical softness that must be Celtic in origin.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Suddenly You
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