“Life is like a boxing match. Defeat is declared not when you fall but when you refuse to stand again.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“Babe.” “Babe?” “Babe.” “Is that your response?” I asked. “No, my response is, babe, shut up and sleep but I already said that so I condensed it to just babe ‘cause that’s easier to say and might not piss you off.” “I can’t read all that in babe, Jake.” “You’ll learn to read my babes.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“You see, a woman who knows herself and her worth knows that her time is valuable and her heart is precious. She doesn’t give either to a man who can’t respect the gifts he’s being offered.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“You are not a fool,” he whispered. “You can never be a fool. You’re total class from top to toe. You’re also a klutz. Own that, baby, because it’s cute and because it’s you. If you learn to accept yourself just as you are, learn to laugh at your quirks instead of hating them, show the world all that’s you without tryin’ to hide things that are not even a little unattractive, that makes you more attractive. What you got is a fuckuva lot. You own all of it and let it all hang out, you’ll go off-the-charts.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“I’d give him anything. I’d give him everything. If I had the power, I’d give him the world.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“Josie.” My name shook with his amusement and it was annoying because the way it did sounded lovely. “She gave me you.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“You crack me right the fuck up, babe.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“It’s never too late to reach for happiness and no matter what life has done to you, it’s never too late to find it.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“It hit him in that moment in a way he knew he’d never forget that he could take that hand and she could lead him anywhere. Just tip up her lips, turn those eyes to him and hold out her hand and he’d go straight to hell with her and do it smiling.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“Unlatch, baby, and roll. Woke up with a taste for my woman’s pussy, now it’s ready for me, I’m hungry.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“Now, I’ve got the taste for steak,” she changed the subject. “What do you have the taste for?” Straight up, he had the taste for cute, klutzy, classy pussy, eating her and listening to her moan.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“How’d you get in there?” “She thinks I’m the shit,” Jake told him, grinning back. Coert kept handing him crap. “So you’ve brainwashed her.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“I never wanted anything but you, Jake… And I wanted you before I even knew you… You’re everything I ever wanted, darling.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“Finally, I turned my lips to his ear and whispered, "I love fight night.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“Small-minded fools are everywhere and those with the courage to be who they are often have to suffer them.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“...things that are normal are just normal. Thus it is my experience that most things that are weird are cool.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“You keep getting more wonderful,” I whispered. “Baby, it’s not yet seven, got my girl who hates to get up early in my arm, a coffee from The Shack she got for me, and I’m gonna get me some in about two hours. I’m thinkin’ you keep gettin’ more wonderful too.” “Good answer,” I replied.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“Just you wait until you get your turn, little man,” Amond advised. “I’m not kissin’ Josie,” Ethan returned, looking a little sick. “No, boy,” Amond replied. “When you get a woman of your own.” “She’s gonna cook like Josie. She’s gonna dress like Josie. She’s gonna talk like Josie. But we’re just holding hands,” Ethan informed Amond superiorly and my heart jumped as my belly melted.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“Man's got the power to break a woman's heart. Women have their own power. Learn this in future, choose better.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“My woman gets off on watchin' her man fight," he murmured in my ear. "Yes," I whispered.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“His eyes narrowed on me. “Fuckin’ hell, you ever show Lydie how far that stick was shoved up your ass?”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“And what’s your eldest son doing this evening? Um…Conner,” I asked Jake. “Probably a threesome,” Amber muttered.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“Grasp on to the beautiful part, Slick.” “I’ll make an effort to do that, Jake.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“That anticipation spiked in a way I felt it in my nipples. My nipples. Oh dear.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“I knew why I was there and I didn’t. I was scared and I wasn’t. I didn’t feel right and I did. I didn’t know what to do but I still knew what I had to do. I wasn’t me. Yet I was.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“Every inch of you, outside and any way you can get inside, baby, physically or emotionally, is mine. You don't share that. Ever.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“Think hard about your stomach, the fullness of it, the possibility if more was introduced that it may need to purge some to fit the rest and then tell me if you really want popcorn.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“Then I just slotted you right up high on my Gotta Find a Sister to Bitch at List.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“You’re worth fucking all that.” I stared at him as that warmth swept through me again but I replied, “It’s foolish.” “You’re worth bein’ that too.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
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“Nice to have you back, girl,” he said softly. Then he turned to Alyss. “Ready to go?” She held up a hand. “One thing I have to take care of,” she said. She looked around the camp and spotted Petulengo, lurking guiltily by the goat pen. “Petulengo!” she called. Her voice was high and penetrating and he started, realizing he had been spotted. He looked around, seeking an escape route. But as he did so, Will unslung the massive longbow from his shoulder and casually plucked an arrow from his quiver. Suddenly, escaping didn’t seem like such a good idea. Then Alyss favored Petulengo with her most winning smile. “Don’t be frightened, dear,” she said soothingly. “I just want to say good-bye.” She beckoned to him, smiling encouragingly, and he stepped forward, gradually gaining in confidence as he realized that, somehow, he had won the favor of this young woman. Some of his old swagger returned as he approached and stood before her, urged a little closer by that smile. Underneath the ash and the dirt, he thought, she was definitely a looker. He gave her a smile in return. Petulengo, it has to be said, fancied himself with the ladies. Treat ’em rough and they’ll eat out of your hand, he thought. Then the smile disappeared like a candle being blown out. He felt a sudden jolt of agony in his right foot. Alyss’s heavy boot, part of Hilde’s wardrobe, had stamped down on his instep, just below the ankle. He doubled over instinctively, gasping with pain. Then Alyss pivoted and drove the heel of her open left hand hard into his nose, snapping his head back and sending him reeling. His arms windmilled and he crashed over onto the hard-packed dirt of the compound. He lay groggily, propped up on his elbows, coughing as blood coursed down the back of his throat. “Next time you throw firewood at an old lady,” Alyss told him, all traces of the winning smile gone, “make sure she can’t do that.” She turned to Will and dusted her hands together in a satisfied gesture. “Now I’m ready to go,” she said.”
― John Flanagan, quote from The Lost Stories
“Otto suspected that Franz would have been quite prepared to go to lunch naked if that was what was necessary and, despite his best efforts, a mental image of this formed that Otto feared might haunt him for ever.
Wing looked at him with concern. ‘Are you all right, Otto? You’ve gone quite pale. Is the Contessa trying to manipulate you again?’
In Otto’s mind’s eye a naked Franz was pouring baked beans straight from the tin into his mouth.
‘No, Wing, it’s much worse than that . . .”
― Mark Walden, quote from H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education
“Se străduise să facă din Lórien un refugiu și o insulă de pace și frumusețe, ca o aducere aminte a zilelor străvechi, dar acum era plin de regrete și presimțiri rele, știind că visul de aur se grăbea să se preschimbe într-o trezire cenușie.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
“free will (noun):
A delusional idea that humans are in control of their own destiny and not subject to the benevolent rule of The One Who Is The One.”
― James Patterson, quote from The Fire
“There is a certain kind of pain that can change you. Even the strongest sword, when placed in a raging fire, will soften and bend and change its form...
Trust me on this one. I know this from personal experience. I hope that you never will, but, since you're a person, and therefore prone to making horrible, soul-splitting mistakes, you probably will one day know what this kind of guilt and shame feels like. And when that time comes, I hope you have the strength...to take advantage of the fire and reshape your own sword.”
― Adam Gidwitz, quote from A Tale Dark & Grimm
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