{"author":"Kristen Ashley","author_id":"Kristen+Ashley","total_quotes":103,"quotes":[{"text":"I'm with him because when I'm with him, I'm free to be me. I'm with him because he's hot. I'm with him because he lets me blather, since I'm prone to blathering, and he lets me rant when I have a bad day. I'm with him because when I rant, he makes me feel better and he does this effortlessly. I'm with him because I live for the times when I'm on the back of his bike and we're riding together, not even talking, just being free.","author":"Kristen Ashley","tags":["free"],"id":2082,"author_id":"Kristen+Ashley"},{"text":"Yeah, you lose this attitude, I can help you work that hurt out.”Who was this man? He held onto his tragedy for seventeen fucking years, how could he stand there and tell mehe could help me work through mine?“Really, Joe? Like you helped me work out my grief at losing Tim?” I asked sarcastically.“That’s not what I was offerin’, buddy, but you want it like that I’ll give it to you.”“You’re unbelievable,” I snapped.“I’m yours.”That socked me in the gut too, so hard it winded me and all I could do was stare up at him.Taking advantage, his face dipped close and his hands curled around both sides of my head.“First fuckin’ time you smiled at me in my bed, that’s when it happened,” he murmured.","author":"Kristen Ashley","tags":["heartbreak","joe","lovers","violet"],"id":16002,"author_id":"Kristen+Ashley"},{"text":"Even one voice in a wilderness of ignorance is a voice that is heard by someone.","author":"Kristen Ashley","tags":["ignorance","knowledge","life-lessons","power","truth"],"id":20968,"author_id":"Kristen+Ashley"},{"text":"Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.","author":"Kristen Ashley","tags":["doubt","lies","trouble"],"id":23506,"author_id":"Kristen+Ashley"},{"text":"It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be.","author":"Kristen Ashley","tags":["nostalgia","pain"],"id":31134,"author_id":"Kristen+Ashley"},{"text":"I want you here. I want you in my home, my bed, my life,” he murmured, the smooth out of his voice, it was low and so rough with sex and emotion, it was abrasive, scoring through me.“Baby –”“I want your clothes in my closet. I wanna hear your voice in my house when you’re talkin’ on the phone. I want you sittin’ beside me when we’re watchin’ TV. I want shit you like in my fridge. I want “your razors in my shower. I want my roof over your head. Your car in my garage. I want to give you what I should have been giving you for sixteen years. As good as you deserve. A showplace. A place where I can make you happy.”God. He was killing me.“Creed, let me –”He didn’t let me finish. He pressed on, driving in, our bodies jolting with his thrusts, his voice harsh in my ear.“Give me that, Sylvie. Give me that and, swear to God, I’ll give you everything.”“I –”His head came up, his cock drove deep and stayed planted and his eyes burned into mine.“All I’ll ask. All I’ll ever ask. You give me that and you got a lifetime of nothin’ but take.","author":"Kristen Ashley","tags":["commitment","home","love","marriage"],"id":36691,"author_id":"Kristen+Ashley"},{"text":"I’d had a really bad day and you hurt me.”His hand at my jaw tensed and he kept whispering when he said, “I’ll probably do it again, Red,because I’m a man and any man can be a dick. But I won’t do it like that, not again. I know you got softunder that attitude and I’ll have a mind to that.","author":"Kristen Ashley","tags":["love-hurts"],"id":38404,"author_id":"Kristen+Ashley"},{"text":"We all fall on hard times,” he said quietly, removing his fist from my chin. “It’s just lucky for you that you fell in the right direction.","author":"Kristen Ashley","tags":["chaos","snapper"],"id":44500,"author_id":"Kristen+Ashley"},{"text":"However, at fourteen years old, she didn’t understand that all those terrible troubles the heroines in her books went through in real life.","author":"Kristen Ashley","tags":["innocent","naive","page","real-life","trials","words","young"],"id":46275,"author_id":"Kristen+Ashley"},{"text":"My girl, always hated frogs,” Jackie stated when she’d controlled her hilarity.“That’s right, Mom,” Feb leveled her irate eyes at her mother, “I’m a girl therefore I hate frogs. I’d get kicked out of the girl club if I didn’t.","author":"Kristen Ashley","tags":["frogs","girls"],"id":49893,"author_id":"Kristen+Ashley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":103,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}