“I can’t be the star in your sky when you’re the only star left shining in mine.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“Any one of those boys wanted to push me around, I’d say bring it on. Hell, I’d pay for one of ‘em to move into my house. They don’t even have to do me; just walk around so I can watch. Maybe in a towel.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“Ally placed her hands over her ears and changed, “La-la-la, not-listening-to-the-story-of-my-brother-proposing-while-doing-the-nasty-one-more-time, la-la-la.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“There it is! Done! And you didn't even have to fuck me.”
He stared at me.
“But you can still fuck me if you want to,” I offered.
He kept staring at me.
“Like now. Fucking me now would be good,” I prompted.
He kept staring at me.
“Hello?...Calling Kai Mason, girlfriend needs a good fucking, right...about...now.”
That's when he spoke.
And this is what he said.
“God, I love you.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“You tore my sheet.”
“I’ll buy you a new one.”
“I don’t want a new one. I think I’m going to have this one bronzed.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“You keeping me alive tonight?”
He’d opened and was out the door but he turns, his eyes locking on mine.
“Even if I die doin’ it.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“Jules’s eyes turned to Vance. “I’ll go somewhere.”
“No,” Vance replied.
“I’ll go somewhere safe,” Jules went on.
Vance got close to Jules and put his hand on her belly. “You think I’m missin’ a minute of this Princess, think again.”
I swallowed hard, hard.
“Then keep me safe,” Julies whispered.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“I’m sorry I fought you, Mace,” I whispered. “But now that you’re mine again, I’m never going to let you go.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“Get out here, babe, I wanna kiss you.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“I had to soften him up because, for whatever reason, all the Rock Chicks had an alternate Hot Bunch guy, Indy's was Eddie. Roxie's was Vance. Jules was Luke. Ava's was Lee. Mine was Mace.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“Nope. That’s right, girl, Shirleen does not understand. So what trauma are we up against now?” Shirleen’s eyes moved to me. “You havin’ too many orgasms or what?”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“And, just like then, after she started singing, it hurt to listen.
But it was a beautiful pain.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“There was something very sexy about Mace going commando.
Very sexy.
Down Mace Slut! My brain commanded”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“I fucked up and hurt you. It won't happen again.” His fingers tensed around my head and his deep voice dropped low. “I promise you, Kitten, it won't happen again.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“Broody Mace looks pleased?” I asked. We all knew what that meant. Been there done that, had the t-shirt.
Stella had been laid.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“You're their fucking daughter! Do they not know how precious you are?”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“Bitch your tee is the shit.”
“Don't call Mace's Mom a bitch.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“We need to boil water. We need clean towels,” Ava announced, following too. “She ain’t birthin’ no baby! She’s got a gunshot wound!” Indy shouted. “I know that!” Ava shouted back. “But we need a sterile environment.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“Herb nodded. “Problem is, you knocked up your girl. That’s the only way women’ll allow you to get away with a Justice of the Peace.” Herb looked back to Hank as many of the men coughed to hide their laughter. “That’s the ticket, son, only way to save us all. Start workin’ on makin’ a baby.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“Christ, I forgot how fucking good you feel when you're beneath me.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“My heart went into my throat. I leaned back against Luke, his arm moved to wrap around my chest and we watched two people we both cared a lot about. They were in love, they were healed and most of all, they were outrageously happy.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“But it’s mine,” he whispered against my cheek and then his mouth moved to my ear. “All, fuckin’, mine.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“Do you think we're getting back together?"
"Getting? No," Mace answered then continued,
"Back together? Yes”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“A year ago, I was too busy thinkin' about how lucky I was that someone as beautiful and talented as you let me into her bed to be bossy. Now I know you love me, I can be as bossy as I want.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“Last night, instead of sleeping,he just lay behind her, listening to her breathe and thinking that sound was sweeter than any song he’d ever heard her sing. And his Stella had a beautiful voice, never heard better.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“We needed to talk about a lot of things and I needed not to have sex with him again. I was beginning to think I was giving him the wrong impression.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“Last night you sat there singing to me 'nothing to hide, believe what I say' and not ten hours later you're standin' in front of me lyin”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“One thing you can say, Stella Gunn," Dixon remarked, now his mouth was twitching " You're pure, fuckin' rock 'n' roll.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“What I’m sayin’ is shit happens to couples. In any relationship there’s ebbs and there’s flows. You want that relationship to work, you put on your life jacket and ride it out.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“Mace never struck me as an affectionate type of guy. Like Luke, if you told me Mace would be affectionately demonstrative in a touchy way in public, I would have laughed. But there it was, proof positive.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
“Do you think, for a moment," she whispered, "that I would have done anything differently? That I could have chosen anything but this, now?" Her dark eyes were alive, bright, shining. "I would suffer any lie, Persephone, for you.”
― Sarah Diemer, quote from The Dark Wife
“What a strange world it was when a girl who wanted to go to school had to defy militants with machine guns - as well as her own family.”
― Malala Yousafzai, quote from I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
“The bathroom door swings open and Nate walks out. He’s toweling his damp hair and wearing nothing but a pair of boxers.
Crap. I should have left this for a more appropriately clothed time of day.”
― Rachel Morgan, quote from The Faerie Guardian
“The sight which met her eyes held her frozen on the threshold, and the thought flashed across her mind that she knew now how it felt to die”
― Georgette Heyer, quote from Sprig Muslin
“The best way to get a handle on the subject would be to ask the experts, but one does not simply walk into a church or synagogue and ask to speak with a demonologist. There are not that many of them; their names are confidential, and they are obliged to report their experiences only to their superiors. Even Ed Warren will not tell all about these horrendous black spirits that come in the night bearing messages and proclamations of blasphemy. When pressed on the matter, in fact, Ed’s reply is: “There are things known to priests and myself that are best left unsaid.” Upon what, then, does Ed Warren base his opinions? Is there proper evidence or corroboration to substantiate his claims? “People who aren’t familiar with the phenomenon sometimes ask me if I’m not involved in a sort of ultrarealistic hallucination, like Don Quixote jousting with windmills. Well, hallucinations are visionary experiences. This, on the other hand, is a phenomenon that hits back. My knowledge of the subject is no different than that of learned clergymen, and they’ll tell you as plainly as I will that this isn’t something to be easily checked off as a bad dream. “I can support everything I say with bona fide evidence,” Ed goes on, “and testimony by credible witnesses and blue-ribbon professionals. There is no conjecture involved here. My statements about the nature of the demonic spirit are based on my own firsthand experiences over thirty years in this work, backed up by the experiences of other recognized demonologists, plus the experiences of the exorcist clergy, plus the testimony of hundreds of witnesses who’ve been these spirits’ victims, plus the full weight of hard physical evidence. Theological dogma about the demonic simply proves consistent with my own findings about these spirits in real life. But let me be more specific. “The inhuman spirit often identifies itself as the devil and then—through physical or psychological means—proves itself to be just that. Again speaking from my own personal experiences, I have been burned by these invisible forces of pandemonium. I have been slashed and cut; these spirits have gouged marks and symbols on my body. I’ve been thrown around the room like a toy. My arms have been twisted up behind me until they’ve ached for a week. I’ve incurred sudden illnesses to knock me out of an investigation. Physicalized monstrosities have manifested before me, threatening death,”
― quote from The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren
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