Ashley Stringham > Ashley's Quotes

“All humans make mistakes. What determines a person's character aren't the mistakes we make. It's how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“There is beauty to be found everywhere… even in the things that scare us.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Lotus

“Because we’re a fucked-up, complicated species prone to self-sabotage, baseless insecurities, and the notion that there’s always something better around the corner. We’re constantly chasing imaginary destinations, thinking we’re missing out, wanting more. We’re never truly present.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Lotus

“A single moment of entanglement, forever binding the invisible matter of souls, until you’re so much a part of each other that there’s no chance of ever being the same. Even if you’re fathomless miles apart. Even if one’s gone while the other lingers. Even if the very love you hold is the thing that breaks you eternally.”
― R. Phillips, Fractured

“but sets it on fucking fire and leaves you knowing that you wouldn’t have it any other way because, without them, the world doesn’t matter.”
― R. Phillips, Fractured

“When you meet someone who is good for you, they won’t fill you with insecurities by focusing on your flaws. They’ll fill you with inspiration, because they’ll focus on all the best parts of you.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects

“You can’t stop being who you are because someone else thinks it’s too much, Ind. He can go find less.”
― Liz Tomforde, The Right Move

“I don’t think that true love means your only love. I think true love means loving truly. Loving purely. Loving wholly.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“It’s up to you to be happy because no one else is going to do it for you.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Timing is a hell of a thing. In the end, that’s what it all comes down to. The potency of an attraction or the purity of a connection mean very little if you’re on separate journeys. You and I were a perfect fit, we were, there was just too much distance between us to see it.” — SEPARATE JOURNEYS | Beau Taplin”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“But I also think you’re meant for each other.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“If you can’t make it work, you aren’t soul mates,”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

“It doesn’t matter if we don’t mean to do the things we do. It doesn’t matter if it was an accident or a mistake. It doesn’t even matter if we think this is all up to fate. Because regardless of our destiny, we still have to answer for our actions. We make choices, big and small, every day of our lives, and those choices have consequences.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

“It’s you who brings me pain. It’s you who is killing me. It’s you, and us,” I added, motioning between us. “It’s this thing that never was, but always is, that never will be and will never not be.”
― Kandi Steiner, Make Me Hate You

“It had always been him. It had always been us. And that kiss — that passionate, painful, bruising kiss told me that he knew it, too.”
― Kandi Steiner, Make Me Hate You

“He wasn’t treating her right. But in my mind, that was different. She was different. They didn’t have what we had. They weren’t us.”
― Stacy Willingham, All the Dangerous Things

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” “Hans Christian Andersen wrote”
― Jillian Dodd, That Forever

“The sun to happily warm my face. The moon to protect me as I slept. And the stars to brighten my way in the dark.”
― Jillian Dodd, That Forever

“tell you I’d give you the sun, the moon, and the stars?”
― Jillian Dodd, That Forever

“I’ll wait for you forever. But if you leave it up to other people, that’s exactly how long it will take.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“I haven’t loved many things in this world,” he says, “but I loved you from the minute I saw you, and whether it’s today or seventy years from now, I’ll love you with my dying breath.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“You’re my gravity. Nothing in my world works without you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Love changes and matures as you do. It becomes deeper, a part of your soul. Intimacy is less about tearing each other’s clothes off and more about closeness and connection.”
― Siena Trap, Festive Faking

“If you leave, I’ll come after you. If you change your mind, I’ll change it back. I’ll fight so fucking hard for you every single day, so you never question if you made the right choice.”
― Kate Stewart, Exodus

“Someone told me that faith isn’t about trying to understand why God did what He did. It isn’t about trying to make sense of His plan for us. It’s simply the acceptance that some things are out of our control and that’s okay.”
― Lexi Ryan, Spinning Out

“For a long time I thought you were gravity. Always there. Always pulling me your way. But that can’t be it either, because you don’t pull me down. You lift me up when there’s no reason I should be able to stand.”
― Lexi Ryan, Spinning Out

“Intelligent men don’t let life-changing women pass them by without trying to grasp onto them with both hands. I don’t need endless months to figure out you’re that woman for me. I’m not most men, Natalie. I know exactly what I don’t want, and it’s everything outside of that door. What I do want is standing in front of me, and the idea of letting her walk away from me a second time is fucking eating me alive.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“It’s not too late, Beauty,” he murmurs, “and with you, it was never going to be.”
― Kate Stewart, Reverse

“Men are like lottery tickets…” “Here we go.” Simone abandoned her cupcake. “…there’s a brief, magical period filled with hope and promise, but inevitably, you scratch off the shiny coating and discover it’s just another loser underneath.”
― Amy Olle, Warrior: A Steamy Wounded Hero Romance

“People rarely know what they have until they lose it. They spend their lives searching for a better one”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly