01c. 1968 ADYou’re not safe to go back there,” he said.“I’m going,” I returned.“We’ll see.”Jeez, there was just no shaking this guy.“You do know that there’s this little thing called the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the right to vote?” I asked.“I heard of that,” he said and there was a smile in his voice.“And there’s this whole movement called fem… in… is…im.” I said it slowly, like he was a dim child. “Where women started working, demanding equal pay for equal work, raising their voices on issues of the day, taking back the night, stuff like that.”He rolled into me, which made me roll onto my back.“Sounds familiar.”“Do you have an encyclopedia? Maybe we can look it up. If the words are too big for you to read, I’l read it out loud and explain as I go along.”He got up on his elbow. “Only if you do it naked.” I slapped his shoulder.Kristen Ashley / quote ↗
02c. 1968 ADHowever, at fourteen years old, she didn’t understand that all those terrible troubles the heroines in her books went through in real lifeKristen Ashley / quote ↗
03c. 1968 ADThe best way to guard your heart was to trust a good man to take care of it for you.Kristen Ashley / quote ↗
04c. 1968 ADNo one knows what goes down between a woman and her man except that woman. Only thing they know is what went down with their own men.Kristen Ashley / quote ↗
05c. 1968 ADDon’t go woman on me and tell me you don’t need a man to complete you. It’s bullshit. Woman looks like you, goddamn waste. But a woman who has the love you got to give, that’s not a waste. That’s a crying shame.Kristen Ashley / quote ↗
06c. 1968 ADForgiveness is beautiful and it feels good when someone gives that gift to you. But it’s one thing for someone you wronged to forgive you. It was another to forgive yourself.Kristen Ashley / quote ↗
07c. 1968 ADDarlin’, the last time I walked into a mall was two presidents ago.” I stared at him in shock. Then I asked, “Is that even possible?” “I got a dick and I was single so, yeah, it’s possible.Kristen Ashley / quote ↗
08c. 1968 ADThat Damon Matthews,” Linda spat. “You know, take one letter out of his name and it spells ‘ damn’ as in ‘damn, that kid’s a worthless sonovabitch’.Kristen Ashley / quote ↗
09c. 1968 ADI never dreamed any fuckin' dream," he whispered, and the smile faded from her face as tears filled her eyes.She understood him."Shy-""Didn't dream it, saw it, waited my time, and then you gave it to me.Kristen Ashley / quote ↗
10c. 1968 ADCompassion is often mistaken for weakness, when the fact is, there is very little that is more powerful than the courage it takes to give it.Kristen Ashley / quote ↗
11c. 1968 ADHow lonely I was, even when I was with him. How it felt, him not making love to me, being affectionate, making me feel desired or desirable. How much it bothered me that, even though I'd talked to him about all of this, even wrote him other e-mails, it didn't ever seem to penetrate.Kristen Ashley / quote ↗
12c. 1968 ADLonely’s a different kind of pain, it doesn’t hurt as bad as heartbreak. I preferred it and embraced it ‘cause I reckoned it was one or the other.Kristen Ashley / quote ↗
13c. 1968 ADI realized then that both Gladys and Norm were smiling at about the time I realized that Max and I were acting like lunatics.“I don’t think she’s tied up in knots anymore, Gladie,” Norm observed.“She is, dear, just not ones she wants to untie,” Gladys remarked.Kristen Ashley / quote ↗
14c. 1968 ADYou don’t have to have had something to want it or need it but when you have something you liked… very much… and it is taken away, and you want it back, it can become a hunger.Kristen Ashley / quote ↗
15c. 1968 ADWhen we faced Mom, we saw she was addressing Max. "We get to know each other I'll get to hug you." "Mom!" I snapped and Mom turned to me. "I get to do it when he doesn't have a shirt on too. I'm calling it now," Mom declared.Kristen Ashley / quote ↗
16c. 1968 ADIt was like the Justice League of Super Heroes but instead it was the Justice League of Hot Guys.Kristen Ashley / quote ↗
17c. 1968 ADHeya, Arlene. What’s shakin’?” Cotton greeted.“Don’t shift some of this weight, everything,” Arlene replied.Kristen Ashley / quote ↗
18c. 1968 ADApparently Super Max was pretty content with taking care of half the town, such was his wonderfulness.Kristen Ashley / quote ↗
19c. 1968 ADHe flipped it open, gently tugged out the oft-touched photo and looked into a pair of familiar golden eyes. "She's happy, Andie," he whispered to his wife. Andromeda Quinn did what she always did. She smiled back at him, her beautiful eyes lit with that bright, golden light Harold Quinn loved so fucking much.Kristen Ashley / quote ↗
20c. 1968 ADYou should feel free to feel how you want and don't think of what people think.Kristen Ashley / quote ↗
21c. 1968 ADEven one voice in a wilderness of ignorance is a voice that is heard by someone.Kristen Ashley / quote ↗
22c. 1968 ADRule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.Kristen Ashley / quote ↗
23c. 1968 ADFood is love," I replied."No, babe, it ain't. But makin' it for the ones you love so they can brag about it is," Take returned.Kristen Ashley / quote ↗