Hold On Quotes

“You got good, you don’t let it go. It lets you go, you hold on. It slips through your fingers, you pull out all the stops to get it back. You got somethin’ worth fighting for, you fight for it. You do not sit on your ass waitin’ for it to come back to you. You show whoever that is they mean something and you go all out on that, and the only way you go down is doin’ that shit swinging.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“Don’t believe in ghosts but evidence points to the fact that the spirit of Janis Joplin puked all over your pad.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“Is it too soon for me to put aside money for your kid’s college education in order to thank him for helpin’ me drag his mother’s head outta her ass?”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“It happens,” he replied. “What happens?” she asked. He dipped closer and held her tighter. “It happens,” he repeated. “For people like us, baby. It happens, eventually. Just as long as we hold on.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“Is there an us?” he asked.
My breasts brushed his chest as I started breathing heavily.
“Goddamn it, Cher, is there an us?” he clipped.
“I want there to be.”
Fuck! It came out because he was freaking me out.
Fuck!
“Then there’s an us,” he declared firmly.
… “And there bein’ an us, Cher, that means you’re mine. Ethan’s mine. Are you followin’ me?”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“We can’t live crippled by what we’re scared might happen. We have to live in the moment, happy with what we have.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“You can stop being perfect. I'm getting a complex.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“You should be a therapist, Mike. Open your own clinic. Call it ‘Don’t Be a Dumb Fuck Treatment Center.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“This better be shit you can handle without Merry gettin’ a pissed off look, Cher. ’Cause you pissed off gives me a quiver. Merry pissed off might mean I’m in the dark with a shovel and a flashlight, coverin’ a brother’s ass by buryin’ bodies.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“Rocky’s made you soft,” he returned. “That is one thing your sister has never made me.” Garrett felt his lip curl. “Christ.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“From your bitches, your true bitches, you couldn’t hide anything.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“Christ, you’re pretty, even standin’ there plotting my murder.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“You look good. There’s no better ass in a pair of jeans in the entire county and it’s mine to tap.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“That’s bullshit, Merry, straight up. You got good, you don’t let it go. It lets you go, you hold on. It slips through your fingers, you pull out all the stops to get it back. You got somethin’ worth fighting for, you fight for it. You do not sit on your ass waitin’ for it to come back to you. You show whoever that is they mean something and you go all out on that, and the only way you go down is doin’ that shit swinging.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“I won’t block you again, honey.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“Things that’re worth it never do. You got a woman where it goes smooth, you get rid of her. There’s no passion in smooth. There’s no challenge in smooth. You got smooth, that mean’s she’s bustin’ her ass so you can sail along without a hitch in the road, which in turns means she’s all about lookin’ after you rather than gettin’ what she needs out of the deal. Man’s no man at all, he doesn’t meet his woman’s needs. Woman’s no woman at all, she doesn’t got it in her to look after gettin’ what she needs. That might not make sense to you until you live it, so I’ll just boil this down, son. Smooth is boring.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“No matter how many years pass, it means something to a parent when their child needs them. At first, kids need you so much, all you want them to do is grow up so they can do things for themselves. Then you learn. You learn you should have savored every time they reached for you or called your name.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“I had no clue just sitting across from the guy who did it for you at a booth in a diner could make you so…fucking…happy. But it did because that was what I felt, sitting with Merry, trading smartass back and forth, and eating fantastic sandwiches. Just that. And that’s all I felt. Fucking happy.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“You gonna give me shit about goin’ out with your brother in blue?” “Gave Merry shit already,” Colt returned, and my stomach clutched. “He shoved it back.” My stomach unclutched and I beat back a smile. “Not sure which one a’ you is more fucked in the head, him for takin’ on your shit or you for takin’ on his. Just know I’ll kick either of your asses, you fuck the other over.” “You do know I’m a big girl, Uncle Colt,” I shot back. Cal chuckled again. Morrie joined him. Colt started to look testy. Or testier.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“She stared.
Then she busted out laughing.
And that was it.
All that he needed.
Cher was laughing.
Garett was calm.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“Everyone was in a hurry. Everyone was out for themselves. No one gave a shit about anyone else. Long ago, kindness, courtesy, and civility had taken a hike.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“When I told Mom we were goin’ out, she did a grab-and-hold stupid girlie hop.”
Garrett started chuckling.
Cher kept talking.
“She called you the last good one standing.”
She let that hang, then finished, “No pressure, though.”
He burst out laughing.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“I’d been blathering for the last twenty minutes about all that had been going down with me. Except for Ryker’s warning about my neighbors, I didn’t leave anything out.
“Vi,” I snapped when she still didn’t say anything.
“Quiet,” she returned. “I’m trying to stop myself from slapping you upside your head.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“There is nowhere for this to go that’s good and you know it, just like me.”
“The only thing I know is, what’s at the end of the road we’re on is unknown. Along the way, I break through that fortress you’ve built around you and manage to extract your head from your ass, it’ll be worth the trip.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“We need to talk face-to-face, so I can explain to you I don’t want you in my shit.”
“You already did that face-to-face, and right now you’re doin’ it over the phone. But, babe, it needs to sink in we don’t agree. I’m in. With your work schedule, mine, and the fact you need to spend time with your kid, we get face-to-face time, we’ll be face-to-face with you on your back and me movin’ inside you.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“His phone sounded.
He grabbed it off his coffee table and his mouth curled up when he read, Kiss my ass, Merry.
Using his thumb, he returned, You want that, brown eyes, I’ll work it in.
She didn’t make him wait and shot back, Go fuck yourself.
Now, sweetheart, you know that’s not the way it works.
Then came, We’re done.
He ignored that and sent, Sleep tight. See you tomorrow.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“Can’t get a read on you,” he noted after a few beats. “You either just got a late life offer from the Colts to be their starting tight end or you’re planning to kidnap someone to torture them.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“It happens,” he repeated. “For people like us, baby. It happens, eventually. Just as long as we hold on.” She liked that. She showed it with her pretty brown eyes. She showed it by pressing closer. She showed it by wrapping both arms around his neck. Finally, she showed it by rolling up further and taking his mouth. And he liked that. So he showed her too. While she was taking his, he took hers. And with that—as they did and as they’d continue to do—together, Cher Rivers and Garrett Merrick successfully weathered yet another storm.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“What you don’t see is that you got your hands on a woman who knows how to weather a storm. So what you got is a woman who knows about your issues. This means you don’t have to do shit, Garrett, except count your lucky stars you’re able to hold tight to your woman so you can weather . . . the goddamned . . . storm.” He knew Dave was done.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On

“We lay there together, connected, a girl who never allowed herself to dream, lying on top of a dream come true.”
― Kristen Ashley, Hold On