The Promise Quotes

“You were mine, even when you were his.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“I have a question.” Stark looked to me. “Can you kick Chuck Norris’s ass?”
Luke Stark smiled, white and lazy.
My heart thumped.
“I strive to be Chuck Norris,” he replied.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“I’m thirty-five and single because I am not gonna settle for somethin’ that doesn’t feel right, doesn’t feel good, doesn’t bring me joy, doesn’t have my back, doesn’t know how to cook, keep house, listen, laugh, make me laugh, give great head, or ask me why I do shit.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“Every day is a new promise, Ben,” I told him sharply. “Every night I go to sleep knowin’ it’s a promise, every day I wake knowin’ in some way it’s gonna be fulfilled. And repeat. For…hopefully…ever.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“Minute by minute, baby.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“And a trashy romance novel. I don’t care which one, but the less the guy on the cover is wearing, the better. Tattoos are a plus. Leather is another plus. And if there’s an indication that he’s a shifter, buy the whole series.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“Now go to sleep with the promise of me, and tomorrow I'll make certain I do somethin' to fulfill it.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“I might see a pretty woman, but even if I do, I’m not doin’ my job if you don’t know down to your gut there’s nothin’ I see that’s as beautiful as what I see in you.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“I’m awesome all the time, babe.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“Babe, you cannot plan life. You can pull out all the stops to plan for everything and life will find a way to fuck with those plans, sock you in the gut, send you scrambling. Through that, you either have the balls not to back down and the strength to know what’s important and hold the fuck on with everything you got, or you don’t have that and you give up ’cause you’re weak. Know two things for certain: I’m not fuckin’ weak and you aren’t either.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“That’s the reason forgiveness is divine. ’Cause someone wrongs us, we live with that wrong right alongside them, but it’s us who has to find the strength to let them off the hook. If they work for it, ask for it, only you have the power to offer it to them so their soul can be less heavy. And the right thing to do is use that power.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“I think I’ve made it relatively clear you bein’ bossy isn’t my favorite thing,” I told him.
“It is when you’re wet for me,” he returned.
It sucked, but he had a point.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“What makes you happy? What do you want outta life?”
“I…” I started, then changed what I was going to say. “Why do you ask?”
“’Cause I wanna know if it’s in me to give it to you.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“Been waitin’ years for this, baby. Thanks for makin’ it worth the wait.”
“You’re still bein’ awesome,” I informed him.
“Yeah, and it’s cute as fuck that annoys you.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“Babe, I was into you. I’m still into you. I never stopped bein’ into you.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“You own a dress that won’t make my dick get hard?”
Her eyes got squinty, but her mouth stayed closed.
“Can I take that as a no?” he pushed.
“FYI, women don’t like it when men talk like that, Benny Bianchi.”
“Bullshit, Francesca Concetti. They fuckin’ love that shit.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“Why?” Sal clipped. “’Cause this is Frankie. She could be standin’ in a field in the middle of the day and a dead body would drop on her.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“Every human being has to have compassion and try to be understanding, and that goes double for people who share your blood,”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“But I liked my gossip fresh, not day-old stale.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“Do you know why I love you?”
The intensity of his eyes changed. It didn’t fade, it kept burning strong, just the emotion behind it shifted.
“Yeah,” he replied. “Because I’m awesome.”
“No,” I whispered. “Because you’re everything a man should be.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“I get you’re scared and I know why. But if I didn’t have somethin’ to offer that I’m gonna bust my balls to make good, somethin’ I know in my gut you want, same as me, this would be goin’ a whole lot differently. I haven’t earned it, baby. I don’t even fuckin’ deserve it. But I gotta ask you to trust me anyway.”
“Okay,” she whispered, straight up, right there, no hesitation.
Jesus. That felt good.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“Only God can judge him and his family for the way they treated you. Here, on earth, the right thing to do is forgive.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“no one ever got a gold medal for sittin’ on their ass and doin’ nothin’. You work at somethin’, you work at it hard, you believe in it, you want it, you go after it, you get it—that’s when you get your prize.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“I get you get that I can take care of myself. I know how to drive a car so I can get places safe. Someone gets in my space, I can handle the situation. But it still would feel good you showed you were happy I got home safe, even if I went to the fuckin’ grocery store. You do that no matter it’s dick or pussy, if you care about somebody. That said, a man has a woman, he sees to that woman. He doesn’t leave her to see to herself. It’s not disrespect to do that. It’s disrespect the other way around.” I”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“He loved Violet. I knew that when he pulled out all the stops and made a miracle happen when he found us in the middle of nowhere in a forest and took a man’s life to save hers. He also loved her girls. And I loved that.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“Totally could oust a government in a small South American country.” That made me laugh.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“Theresa Bianchi decorated in bulk with a heavy dose of Catholicism”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“I gave his a squeeze and relaxed beside him, wondering if this was how it felt.
If this was how it felt to get what you wanted for a lifetime.
Have it stretched out beside you.
The promise of it there all night so you'd wake up to it in the morning.
The promise of it going to work the next day with you knowing it was coming back.
A promise that would stay a promise-beautiful, forever there, beckoning, even as minute by minute it was being fulfilled, leaving you taking your last breath on earth knowing you lived a life filled with beauty.
If it was, it was weirdly serene.
You'd think something that magnificent would be about fireworks.
But if this was it, it wasn't.
It was quiet, tranquil, comfortable.
Beauty.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“A man has a woman, he sees to that woman. He doesn't leave her to see to herself.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise

“Good girls earn good things.” She let my jaw go, her eyes going beyond me toward Benny’s house, then coming back to me. “Let yourself have good things.” “It’s not right,” I told her quietly. “Know one thing on God’s beautiful earth, and that is” —she leaned into me— “love is never wrong.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Promise