Quotes from Kaleidoscope

Kristen Ashley ·  406 pages

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“Cause you piss me off. You make me laugh. You make me think. You’re absolutely fine with me bein’ nothin’ but me. You’re fuckin’ gorgeous. You’re a great lay. And you like my dog.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope


“This was a kaleidoscope of beauty, the dials spinning, ever changing, but never anything short of spectacular.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope


“Your girl?” I asked, my voice coming out in a near on squeak.
“Yeah,” he answered, his voice deep, low and firm.
“This is, well…kinda weird.” Understatement! “And fast.” Extreme understatement!
“Met you twelve years ago and we’re just gettin’ here. I don’t call that fast. I call that a waste of fuckin’ time I’m about to rectify.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope


“Because it means that much to me, I’m gonna handle this with care. You just gotta believe me.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope


“Emme, baby, talk to me.”
“I want this,” I whispered.
And I did. Badly…
“Good. You got it.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope



“Is the sex good?” … “I hope it’s good but not great,” Krystal remarked. “Sex slave to an alpha. Bad news.”
This time my head didn’t jerk. I blinked again.
“I’m a sex slave to an alpha and I have no complaints,” Lauren muttered, grinning at Zara.
“Me either,” Zara replied, grinning back.
“I’ve had mine longer than all of you,” Nina announced. “And I’m of a mind that there will never be a time to complain.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope


“The good-natured arguing that got your heart pumping, made you think, made you listen, made you feel just that bit more alive.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope


“It was then I was seeing the wisdom of doing what I could to amass a girl posse who knew how to deal with “uber-alphas” because they could share their wisdom.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope


“Any woman who was breathing noticed Jacob Decker. Hell, it was possible he could walk through a graveyard and his very presence would call up the dead females as zombies rabid to get just an undead glimpse of him, he was that noticeable of a male.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope


“I think you’re worried about nothing,” I told him.
“And I think I got a dick,” he told me and I blinked at his words. “And havin’ a dick, I know how other guys who got one think.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope



“All that was Emmanuelle Holmes in his kitchen in his tee making him a sandwich after he’d fucked her and they’d both come hard.
That did not suck.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope


“See, seeing him and how much he loved his wife, his daughter, how much he missed them, I changed. I was careful about letting people in my life. People I could lose. People who, losing them, could hurt me. Even the ones I loved, I held myself remote from, so if I lost them, I didn't allow myself to feel that hurt.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope


“God. He could even dive perfectly.
In jeans.
Or maybe it was perfect because it was hot and he was doing it in jeans.
Or maybe it was just hot because he was joining me.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope


“You love me but won’t let yourself have me.” “I—” “And, baby,” he lifted his hand to my jaw and dropped his face closer to mine, “I’m gonna figure out why. Fix what’s broke in you. Then turn my attention to givin’ you the best life I can for the rest of the time you’re on this earth breathin’.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope


“This is give-and-take, you and me. You gotta learn to let me give so that means you gotta learn to take.” “And when do I give and you take?” “Every day, sometimes more than once, when you tell me you really like me when you mean somethin’ else and I know my future includes hearin’ you comin’ home sayin’ ‘hey, puppy’ to Buford.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope



“Emme and Deck talked as well as argued all the time about politics, current events, historical events, whatever. The good-natured arguing that got your heart pumping, made you think, made you listen, made you feel just that bit more alive. Elsbeth”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope


“And maybe this was the us we were always meant to be and we should be that.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope


“But it wasn't that I wasn't big on socializing. It was that I wasn't very good at mingling. Small talk did nothing for me. Connecting in a vague way that was meaningless left me cold.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope


“She traveled too. She had a strict rule. One week vacation a year, relaxation on a beach. The other week of vacation, adventure. Going somewhere she could learn, see, taste, experience.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope


“You’re not the only one’s been lonely, Emme, hoping the right one will come along so you don’t go home to an empty house and climb into an empty bed.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope



“This was a kaleidoscope of beauty, the dials spinning, ever changing, but never anything short of spectacular. Deck”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope


“I finally understood that the reason I was angry at my friend was because, in throwing Jacob away, she took him away from me. And”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope


“Been to some interesting places, Emme, baby, and that has always been with me. I”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Kaleidoscope


About the author

Kristen Ashley
Born place: in Gary, Indiana, The United States
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