Fire Inside Quotes

“I don't use you as a shield. I am the goddamn shield.”
― kristen ashley, Fire Inside

“Forgiveness 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, Fire Inside

“At your back, baby, now and always.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“Babe?” Hop called.
“As of now, I’m not talking to you,” I announced with a mouth full of donut.
“Love you more than life.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“Every step, every breath, every second I lived on this earth, I’m thankful for, no matter how fucked up or whacked or hard or good, ’cause all that shit led me to you.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“Honey,” I called and his head came up. “You have a monster too.”
“I did. My woman just slayed it.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“The heart sometimes doesn’t care about limits.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“I tried to give you what you needed, to stay away, let you live your fucked-up life, but I can’t. Taste you in my mouth, lady. See you in my dreams.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“Please be real.”
His hand in my hair stilled, curled around my head and Hop whispered back, “Lady, I’m as real as it gets.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“I think you just gave me a mini-orgasm,” I shared.

“If you get your ass over here, I’ll give you one that is not mini.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“Don’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, Fire Inside

“Lanie, you live 15 minutes away from your office and you get there at eight. Over two hours every day just to do your hair and makeup. Diana fuckin' Ross in her heyday probably took less time to get ready for a show. Babe, if that isn't high maintenance, I do not know what is.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“Babe, best wool men ever pulled was lettin’ women think we think with our dicks. We pay a fuckuva lot of attention. We know your shit maybe more than you do because we live it right along with you and some of you try to make us eat it. It’s just that some of us choose not to get sucked in the drama and instead focus on getting laid regularly.”
I felt my eyes get big right before I wrapped my arms around him and started giggling, but I managed to push through my giggles, “Honey, not sure you should share the brotherhood’s secrets.”
“You talk, no woman will listen. They prefer to think a man’s brain is in his dick. Gives ’em something to bitch about.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“You take a chance on me, your biggest worry is your 7Up fizzing over.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“My name is Lanie Kincaid,” I told his chest.

“Sure the fuck is,” Hop replied on a growl.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“Just a note: it was impossible to stay pissed at a handsome man when he had his mouth between your legs.
Especially if he really, really knew how to use that mouth.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“I’ll wear you down,” he proclaimed.
“No, you won’t,” I denied.
“You won’t let me in, I’ll break in, sneak in, blast in,” he promised.
“You won’t get in,” I contradicted.
He shut up again and stared at me.
After long moments, I watched as suddenly, weirdly and, most of all, scarily, he saw something in me that made his face clear.
I didn’t think that was good.
I would find out I was right.
“Let you in on a secret, babe, and you think on this,” he told me.
I was not going to think on anything.
“Hop… get… off… me,” I snapped.
His body pressed into mine so he could lift his hands up and frame my face.
“I’m already in. Just gotta wait for you to realize it.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“Jesus works on Sundays, Hop. Want a direct line, time to haul your biker ass to church.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“You. Bike. Now.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“Not sure I get why this shit’s a secret but you two bein’ just a hookup is not where that’s at. Unless you’re going’for the all-time record of longest hookup, and, just a head’s up, brother, there’s another way people refer to that shit and it’s called a relationship.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“With women, it’s about the slow soak, babe. Assholes pour shit on the surface and women keep goin’ not even knowin’ that shit is soakin’ in. Then one day, out of fuckin’ nowhere, that acid has burned deep in a way it leaves a wound that will never heal. Wipe that shit away, Lanie. Don’t let it soak in. He doesn’t know me. He cannot make that call about me.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“I think I have a clue how much you love me now, Hop,” I told him when he broke the kiss.
“Good to know, baby,” he said through a grin.
“Thank you,” I whispered.
“So far from a hardship, it isn’t funny, lady, but you’re welcome.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“You mean somethin’ to me in a way, for a man, he wants the world to know it. I’m proud you’re on my arm and in my bed and I want to share that with my family. Don’t keep takin’ that away from me.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“Being on the moon is about harnessing science and technology. Waveless waterbeds are about harnessing nature and that, by definition, is not natural,” I shot back.
“Babe, you’re not lyin’ on a miracle,” he said through a lip twitch.
“No, I’m lying under one.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“I had nothing left to give.
I not only had nothing left to give, I just had nothing.
And I was going to keep it that way.
If you had nothing, you couldn’t feel more pain because you had nothing left to lose.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“Fuck me, babe, seriously? You knocked yourself out to make me wild. Why, Lanie? Why the fuck would you pull out all the fuckin' stops to make a man already drunk on you drunker?”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“Lady, we’re not sleeping, we’re resting then we’re fucking some more. Last time I’ll say it. Not done with you, got things I want to do to you and I’m doin’ them.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“You’re beautiful, fuck me, seriously, so goddamned beautiful sometimes, sweat to God, I think I can’t look at you any longer because if I do, your beauty will burn out my eyes.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“You’re very arrogant, Hopper Kincaid.”
“Yeah, well, man gets that way when a woman that looks like you comes as hard as I can make you come.”
― Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside

“You gonna stay pissed as i go down on you?" I just glared. "I'll take that as a yes." He muttered.”
― kristen ashley, Fire Inside