Quotes from Play It Safe

Kristen Ashley ·  487 pages

Rating: (16.4K votes)


“You still fallin’ in love with me?... ‘Cause you should know, baby, I’m already gone for you”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe


“I loved you then. I love you now. I’ve loved you every day for seven years.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe


“You have the best wild west rancher cowboy name in history”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe


“Say it.”
“Say what?”
“Order me to tell you I love you.”
The instant the words came out of my mouth, his eyes closed, a shadow of pain crossed his face and he dropped his head to the side of mine.
He remembered.
He missed that too.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe


“Never before, never since have I felt for any woman, fuck anyone the way I felt about you. I want that back. I want my girl back.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe



“I love you, Ivey, and you got a name you gave yourself that means somethin’ to you but I still want you to take mine.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe


“Prettiest thing I've ever seen."
"Gray,"
"In that getup, in your jeans and tees, in your bikini on the lawnmower, when I open my eyes in the morning and see you next to me, anytime I see you, that's what I think. First thing that comes to mind. Anytime. Every time.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe


“I understand that you're a big fish in a small pond, but I'll explain that if you want to swim in the ocean, you must understand that the ocean is populated by sharks, and sharks never sleep.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe


“Okay, my man, in a minute you are gonna hear a bunch of shit that’s gonna knock your socks off. So, two seconds to prepare, Ivey is my best friend, outside you my only real one, as you know. What you don’t know, she is not my lover. She’s my friend. And I’m gay. You tell anyone, I’ll shoot you and you know I’m not fucking with you about that. Deal with it. We gotta move on, like, now.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe


“Honest to God, dollface, you need to stop running around in that fuckin’ nightie. You’re killin’ me.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe



“Wherever you were born and whatever you did, pool hustler, showgirl, tonight, you were a rancher's woman and just like you, when you do somethin', you're the best there is.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe


“I'm glad that when I was on the sidewalk on the square in town with you and Casey all those years ago, I decided for the first time in my life not to play it safe."
"I'm glad too, Ivey, seriously fuckin' glad you took a chance on me.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe


“Seriously. Who needed a real lover when you had a handsome, affectionate man who adored you, put a beautiful house over your head, gave you a great job, lavished you with fabulous clothes, shoes, purses and jewelry and would never break your heart?”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe


“You couldn't muck out a horse stall in Christian Louboutins.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe


“You're the prettiest thing I've ever seen, Ivey.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe



“Still, beautiful, let your man do what he's gotta do.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe


“You still fallin’ in love with me?”

I stared, my cheeks now getting warm and opened my mouth to answer affirmative when he went on.

“’Cause you should know, baby, I’m already gone for you.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe


“And glad you're takin' a chance on me.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe


“Prettiest thing I’ve ever seen.”

[...]

“In that getup, in your jeans and tees, in your bikini on the lawnmower, when I open my eyes in the morning and see you next to me, anytime I see you, that’s what I think. First thing that comes to mind. Anytime. Every time.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe


“How can one day you have next to nothing and then a week and a day later you have everything?”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe



“I understand you’re a big fish in a small pond,” Lash said softly, his deep, cultured voice carrying a more eloquent threat than Buddy could ever hope to pull off. “But I’ll explain that if you want to swim in the ocean, you must understand that the ocean is populated by sharks and sharks never sleep.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe


“You know, Gray. Don't be your Daddy. Be smart. Find a nice girl to take home to your Gran. You know I'm not that.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe


“Standing beside Gray in the Fellowship Hall, we watched Grandma Miriam do her socializing exactly like she did last Sunday (and I enjoyed watching it). This proved what Gray had told me that she was born in Mustang and lived her whole life there seeing as she knew every single person in that church.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Play It Safe


About the author

Kristen Ashley
Born place: in Gary, Indiana, The United States
See more on GoodReads

Popular quotes

“How different it could all have been … Taylor Swift was never meant to be a singer-songwriter; she was supposed to become a stockbroker. Her parents even chose her Christian name with a business path in mind. Her mother, Andrea, selected a gender-neutral name for her baby girl so that when she grew up and applied for jobs in the male-dominated finance industry no one would know if she were male or female. It was a plan that came from a loving place, but it was not one that would ever be realised. Instead, millions and millions of fans across the world would know exactly which gender Andrea’s firstborn was, without ever meeting her. In Taylor’s track ‘The Best Day’, which touchingly evokes a childhood full of wonder, she sings of her ‘excellent’ father whose ‘strength is making me stronger’. That excellent father is Scott Kingsley Swift, who studied business at the University of Delaware. He lived in the Brown residence hall. There, he made lots of friends, one of whom, Michael DiMuzio, would later cross paths with Taylor professionally. Scott graduated with a first-class degree and set about building his career in similarly impressive style. Perhaps a knack for business is in the blood: his father and grandfather also worked in finance. Scott set up his own investment-banking firm called the Swift”
― quote from Taylor Swift: The Whole Story


“Dia... het is zo. Ik begrijp er niet veel van, maar ik geloof je wél. Je komt uit een grote stad hier heel ver vandaan, waar je heel erg ziek bent, en hier ben je opeens gezond en wel. Hoe bestaat dat? - Arianna”
― Mary Hoffman, quote from Stad van maskers


“Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.”
― Chris Bradford, quote from The Way of the Sword


“According to official Soviet statistics submitted to the World Health Organization in the 1970s, virtually every imaginable infectious disease was on the decline or had disappeared, thanks to communist policies. It was widely believed in international health circles at the time that these statistics were wholly fabricated. 9”
― quote from The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance


“Lizzie led Katie to the bleachers that overlooked the driving range. They settled onto seats in the first row and both started to look at the day’s pairing sheet that they’d taken from the attendant at the gate.”
― Mara Jacobs, quote from Worth the Drive


Interesting books

A Game of Thrones
(1.6M)
A Game of Thrones
by George R.R. Martin
The Lightning Thief
(1.5M)
The Lightning Thief
by Rick Riordan
Where the Wild Things Are
(680.8K)
Where the Wild Thing...
by Maurice Sendak
Life of Pi
(1.1M)
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
A Tale of Two Cities
(705K)
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
Water for Elephants
(1.2M)
Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen

About BookQuoters

BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.

We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.

Founded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people who share an affinity for books. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous world; conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. We feel that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but offer you some of the highlights. We hope you’ll join us.