Jagged Quotes

“But you can't settle for what you want. you gotta find what you need.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“Nina’s eyes narrowed. “I’ll remind you, Holden Maxwell, father of my children, love of my life, that we just met Reece and perhaps he doesn’t wish to listen to us squabbling.”
Max looked at Ham. “Kiss that good-bye. We’ll be fightin’ on and off through dinner. Prepare. She gets riled, we’re all fucked.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“He’d been her one. It took him years to realize she was his.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“His hand came up to cup my cheek and he whispered, “Cookie, pay attention. I’m gonna give you everything.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“Truth hurts. Then again, it also sets you free. [Jimmy Cotton]”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“A man is not what he says, babe. He's what he does.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“If a woman love you, truly loves you, baby, she lets you be the man you have to be. She doesn’t change you into the man she wants you to be.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“Seriously, I don’t care if feminists hunt me down and burn me at the stake, that man crooked his finger at me, I’d follow him into a bank and rob it at his side.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“Greg looked at Aunt Dahlia. “You need to leave.”
“I already told her that,” Ham growled.
Greg ignored Ham like he didn’t exist and said to Aunt Dahlia, “I’ll ask the manager to have you removed.”
“Since I dine here once a month, I doubt he’ll choose removing me over removing the lot of you.”
She twirled her finger in the air to indicate us all.
“Do you think,” Nina started and I looked at her to see her looking at Max, “that this is normal? I mean, does this kind of thing happen to other people in the world? I really want to know.”
Max smiled at his wife. I looked back at Aunt Dahlia to see, scarily, she was looking at me. “You need to phone your father.”
“No, she doesn’t.” This was said by Kami Maxwell. I leaned forward and plonked my forehead on the table.

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“Is there a problem here?” A mild-mannered-looking suited man I suspected was the manager entered the situation.
“No, I’m simply having a word with my niece,” my aunt replied.
“Yes, this woman interrupted my wife’s dinner in an extremely unpleasant way,” Greg contradicted.
“She’s not your wife,” Ham grunted.
Uh-oh.
Shocking the crap out of me, Greg, with narrowed eyes and anger contorting his face, instantly fired back at Ham, “She’ll always be my wife.”
I went still. The table went still. I fancied the restaurant went still as I was pretty certain I watched ice form in a thick layer, crackling and groaning all around Ham. “Well shit.”
His words were sarcastic but that didn’t mean they weren’t dripping icicles. “See I’m in a position to apologize since I fucked your wife against the wall before we left to come here.”

This was when I plonked my head on the table again.

“Oh my,” Nina breathed as she glanced at Max. “We haven’t done that in a while, darling. We should do that again.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“You promise to hold on to me, I’ll promise to hold on to you and we’ll make it through.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“Don’t have a line to the devil, Ham."
"Bullshit, babe. Somewhere along the line, you made a deal with him. No woman who gives head the way you do hasn’t sold her soul for that ability.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“Possessiveness was hot. A man who staked his claim, marked his territory. It wasn't about lack of trust. It was about belonging to someone. It was about them having pride in that and wanting everyone to know it, especially you.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“You love a job, no matter how hard it is, it’s still easy. Not sure, never studied up on the guy, could be wrong, but I reckon Michelangelo didn’t wake up and think, ‘Fuck, I gotta drag my ass outta bed. More painting at the Sistine Chapel. Wish that shit was done so I could get to a fuckin’ beach.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“I’m sensin’ we’re comin’ to a positive end to this discussion so I don’t wanna piss you off, but I’m not your counselor. I’m your ex-wife’s man. You need to process shit, do it with one of your boys. I got shit to do.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“It’s always been you.”
“Fuck, now I gotta fuck you again.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“I had the weird sensaton that, even when you thought you had everything, life found ways to give you more.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“If you worked hard for it, if you didn't give up, even when you found your way and you thought you had everything, life found a way to give you more. [Zara]”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“Life has certain things planned. I find, for some people, it takes you places you don't want to go but the path leads to where you need to be.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“Darlin’, I’m settling. What you didn’t know, what I was keepin’ back ‘til the right time, that time bein’ now, was, I’m doin’ it with you.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“You can say anything but it's what you do that says it all.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“Because not havin’ anything good, anything to look forward to, anything to work toward sucks. It can beat you. There were a bunch of times when I almost let it beat me. And I gotta do what I gotta do to keep that streak and not let it beat me.” When I was done”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“Darlin', a man can put pressure on a woman to change without saying a word," Ham contradicted and that rocked me”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“You goin' down on me rocks my world but when you're smashed, you ratchet that shit up so it's so fuckin' good, I don't know whether to come in your mouth or fuck you then hold you until you pass out, before I slip out while you're asleep and buy you a trophy.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“I don’t intend to use beer as a crutch and drink until I pass out. So advice, keep an eye on that so you can get in there and get yourself drunk sex before it turns unpretty and drunk sex ends with me puking and / or passing out during the act.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“We just got a couple of huge breaks.
You need to play it cool.” She nodded, her head bobbing vigorously.
“I can be cool.”
She was totally not going to be cool.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“Nina, Max, always a blast,” Kami said to her brother and sister-in-law. “Guy I don’t know, you treat her like shit, I slash your tires,” she said to Ham. “Zara, later,” she said to me, and then she sauntered away.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“And these boys here won’t want to get in a smackdown with a nasty old woman. But not me. I got no problem doin’ that. So if you don’t walk away , I’ve got enough bitch stored up, I’m aimin’ it all at you, startin’ with throwin’ Nina’s drink in your face.”
At this, Nina slid her drink out of reach.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“It's always been you.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“Cookie, pay attention. I'm gonna give you everything.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged

“Ham was standing at the counter in the kitchen with his head turned, glowering at me.
“New rule. You don’t do that shit when I’m in the house,” he growled and I blinked.
“What shit?”
“You use your toy to get off when I’m not fuckin’ here.”
Oh my God. He heard me.
How humiliating was this?
“Ham--”
“Heard the toy. Head you. Don’t do that again.”
“I--”
“Hear it again, make no mistake, babe, I’ll join you.”
― Kristen Ashley, Jagged