Ride Steady Quotes

“I think I might be falling in love with you,”…
“Then quit thinkin’, Carrie, because I know I’m fallin’ for you.”
I stared at him a moment, feeling all that made me feel, before lifting my hand and waving it in front of my face, announcing, “I’m gonna cry.”
“Then for fucks’ sake, get over here so you can be in my arms while you do it.”
At that, I burst into tears.
When I did, not moving an inch because he came to me, I was in his arms.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“I like you…”I got up on my toes to get in his face, “a lot”.
“You haven’t made that a secret.”
“Maybe I should start doing that,” I retorted …
“Butterfly, advice. Don’t start playin’ new games when you’re already winnin’ the one you’re in.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“Moomah," Travis mumbled and Joker looked to the kid to see his eyes on the magazine, his fingers twiddling his lip.
"Yeah, son, that's your momma."
Travis looked to him. "Moomah."
"Yeah, boy."
Travis took his fingers from his lip and curled them around Joker's. "Joejoekah."
"Yeah," Joker whispered. "I'm your Joker."
The boy wobbled a second then dropped forward and landed a sloppy, open-mouthed kiss on his hand and Joker's mouth.
He wobbled back.
"Love you too, kid," Joker whispered.
Travis giggled.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“Lee Nightingale is a supreme badass. Hawk’s a bona fide superhero who doesn’t wear a ridiculous suit. This is no joke. He probably sensed our discussion through powers he got when his mom was pushin’ him out and got struck by lightning or something. I don’t ask. He’s an ally. He’s also a brother of Tack’s. I’m just happy he isn’t an enemy.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“Hey,” he whispered.
Oh.
Wow.
“Hey,” I whispered back.
He curled his fingers around the side of my neck and slid them up to my jaw.
“You good?”he asked.
I swallowed. Then nodded.
“Wanna be better?”
― kristen ashley, Ride Steady

“I’m in love with your ex-wife,” … “I’ve loved her since high school, man. She means everything to me. You gotta drag her down, that’ll suck, but I’ll pick her back up. You gotta rip her apart, I’ll fuckin’ hate watchin’ it, but I’ll put her back together.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“Butterfly, I need you to get this,” he interrupted me firmly. “I’ve been in love with you since high school. I’ll be in love with you when you walk down the aisle to me, push out our first kid, our second, our third, cry when they go off to college, nag at them to give you grandbabies, and sit next to me on our couch in our pad in assisted living. I got that. I got my family. I got my brothers. I’m healed. You do not have to go off keyin’ my dad’s car. I’m good. Stop tryin’ to make me that way. You already got me there.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“Tack studied him before he remarked, “You think I’m whipped.”
Joker made no reply. He wouldn’t disrespect a brother like that, especially not Tack.
But he did think that.
Absolutely.
Tack grinned and took a pull from his beer.
After he dropped it, he said reflectively, still grinning. “Maybe I am. Though, the way I am and the woman holds that whip, it’s a good thing to be.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“Tack’s voice was granite when he started, “They will not take her boy, and the time to fuck with Carissa Teodoro is now over.”
Joker’s voice was a quiet growl when he started, “You know you got my love, brother.”
“I do,” Tack returned. “And it’s a privilege, Carson.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“We all fall on hard times,” he said quietly, removing his fist from my chin. “It’s just lucky for you that you fell in the right direction.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“Knight Sebring was loaded. On the surface of it, and Joker suspected some of that leaked into his skin, he was also total class. But if you hurt a woman, he’d slit your throat, do it personally, and walk away forgetting you existed.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“Yeah, Carrie … It’s you. It’s always been you. It’ll always be you. Fuckin’ always.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“I am going to heal you, Carson Steele. It’s gonna happen. That’s it. No response necessary.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“My God … how magnificent of a man do you have to be to go through what you went through, doing it alone, nobody to ease the way, the pain, no mother, no brother no sister, all by yourself enduring that and fight your way to becoming all that you are. It isn’t amazing. It’s a darned miracle.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“It was always you. Only you. I was into you back then, Carissa, in a big fuckin’ way … And that hasn’t changed.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“That motherfucker, he taught you to think you were garbage. You took that on. You were a kid. You had no fuckin’ choice. But he was wrong, Joke. And the only person who doesn’t get that shit is you. Get it. Get over it. Get your head outta your ass. And find what you deserve. Find some fuckin’ happy. If it isn’t this girl, it isn’t. But whatever it is, I want it for you. Your brothers want it for you. Their old ladies want it for you. The only one who isn’t lookin’ for that for you is you.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“When I closed the door and turned to the guys, I saw they were all leaned slightly to the right, heads tipped, eyes on my behind or, in the case of the lanky guy, my legs. I felt warmth hit my cheeks and called, “Is Joker around?” They all came to and looked to my face. “She brought him pie,” the lanky guy muttered. “Fuckin’ brilliant,” the greasy jeans guy also was muttering. “Does Joker even like pie?” the coverall guy was only slightly muttering. But my heart squeezed. Didn’t he like pie? Didn’t everyone like pie? Oh no! What if he didn’t like pie? “Does Joker like anything?” greasy jeans guy asked. “I bet, today, he’s gonna like butterflies,” lanky guy noted. “Today, I like butterflies,” greasy jeans guy declared.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“A man is defined many ways. One of those is the woman he picks to be at his side.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“Yeah, Carrie,” he answered. “It’s you. It’s always been you. It’ll always be you. Fuckin’ always.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“She was crazy. I looked at her to see she was grinning like the crazy I thought she was at the windshield. “Keyed his truck, keyed his face. Abuser fuckwad, bested by a girl with curly hair. Totally… fucking… rad,” Tabby decreed. Her words hit me. They soaked in. And I began grinning. She was right. It was. It absolutely was. Totally… fucking… rad.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“Yo, Hawk.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“I can’t imagine it, what would make a man who has the love of a woman, a woman who wants nothing but to live a life loving him and the babies they make, strive to turn that to hate. If I could stand the sight of you, I’d be interested in you explaining that to me. But I can’t stand the sight of you. So that will remain a mystery.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“God took my boy. Then He gave me you.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“Before we learn what’s right, we put our trust in the wrong people, and it’s never good to start life’s adventures, especially important ones like marriage, when we’re too young even to know ourselves.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“He crossed his arms on his chest. “You do know with this shit you’re pullin’ that no way in fuck I’m ever gonna stop and help a woman change her tire again.” “That’s fifty cents.” He stared at me. Then he turned on his boot and stalked to the door, muttering, “Fuck me.” “Sixty cents!” I yelled at his back.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“The good he got from the people who cared about him set him up to return it, maybe not to them, but to people who deserved it. And that was what it was all about. The meaning of life. Why every person on the planet was there. They got what they gave and then they gave what they got, and it was the measure of you if you could endure the shit that came with life and still find it in you to focus on the good and put that out there.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“So I was in my LeLane’s uniform of polo, khakis, and Converse (though, LeLane’s didn’t require Converse, that was my nod to style because everyone knew Converse rocked).”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“it was the measure of you if you could endure the shit that came with life and still find it in you to focus on the good and put that out there.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“Right there, his world was done. Because there was nothing that would be better than Carissa Teodoro standing a foot away with her hand warm on his, grinning up at him. Nothing.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“Joker’s voice was a quiet growl when he stated, “You know you got my love, brother.” “I do,” Tack returned. “And it’s a privilege, Carson.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady