“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
Kristen Ashley
Born place: in Gary, Indiana, The United States
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“If you don't try, nothing ever changes.”
― quote from My Brilliant Friend
“One feature of the voucher plan that has aroused particular concern is the possibility that parents could and would "add on" to the vouchers. If the voucher were for, say, $1,500, a parent could add another $500 to it and send his child to a school charging $2,000 tuition. Some fear that the result might be even wider differences in educational opportunities than now exist because low-income parents would not add to the amount of the voucher while middle-income and upper-income parents would supplement it extensively.”
― Milton Friedman, quote from Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
“Can you understand what the rats are saying?"
"No. But I can kill them."
"Why?"
"Because they are never satisfied. They are like bad politicians and imperialists and rich people."
"How?"
"They eat up property. They eat up everything in sight. And one day when they are very hungry they will eat us up.”
― Ben Okri, quote from The Famished Road
“How soon, sugar, the terrible becomes routine. We've all got this dangerous built-in talent: for turning horrors into errands. You hear folks wonder how the Germans could have done it? I believe part of the answer is: They made extermination be a nine-to-five activity. You know, salaries? Lunch breaks? And the staff came and did their job and went home and ate supper and slept and woke and came back and did their job and went home and ate their supper and slept and woke and came back and did their job. --That's partly how you get anything done, especially a chore what's dreadful, dreadful. -- Honey? we've all got to be real careful of what we can get used to.”
― Allan Gurganus, quote from Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
“You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way. ”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Reality Dysfunction
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