Bikers Quotes

“We crossed the Mississippi and on to Illinois. At Starved Rock, 100 miles south of Chicago, we followed 40 or 50 bikers with ‘Bikers against Child Abuse’ as their colours. Next was Indiana, with foggy river towns and vast farmlands, Amish homes in Ohio with smoke curling from the chimneys, then 43 miles of unbroken forests and prime trout-water rivers in West Virginia. We stayed overnight and ate fresh game pie, although whether we were eating possum, rabbit or raccoon we never discovered.”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“Get your licks on route 66.”
― THIGHBRUSH

“Put a tray of cookies out and the Ravens were like a bunch of eight-year-olds, not a clubhouse full of hard-ass bikers.”
― Laura Kaye, Ride Hard

“You want me to own you, don’t you, baby? You been waitin’ for me to own you for a long time now, haven’t you?”
― Madeline Sheehan

“Nothing to be sorry for. A girl’s no girl at all for her sisters if she doesn’t get that sometimes a sister has to share the hurt, sometimes hold it close. That happens, a girl’s gotta stand by her sister the way she needs her, not the way that girl needs to do it.”
― Kristen Ashley, Walk Through Fire

“The DNA in your body determines your hair, your height, your eye color. It does not decide that you are going to get joy out of causing pain and hurting others like he did. It does not decide that you will break down other people so you can stand taller. You decide that, Blair. You get to choose. You get to be whoever the hell you want to be, and honestly, I think you made that choice a long time ago.”
― Addison Jane, Illusive

“Momma didn't raise any fool, she put me in fostercare”
― LightHouse Dann Verner, "DAMAGED'

“Truck drivers are great with directions. Landmarks, road conditions, the works. The only problem is that they’ll give you five different routes to just get to the next town. By the time they’re done, you won’t know what the hell to do.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

“He was an outsider chasing the unknown.”
― Foster Kinn, The Poet, The Professor, and The Redneck: How Men Die, How They Live

“And he rode faster and faster still so that at last he looked through the eyes of angels and his mind was cleansed of all earthly effects and he reached that higher realm of light in which all things are holy and pure.”
― Foster Kinn, The Poet, The Professor, and the Redneck: How Men Die, How They Live

“The shadows lengthened and they were like newly grown hands of the Dark Companion that grasped at his boots and jeans and vest and hair, and he rode through them and over them, and still they grew and grasped until the shadows consumed the sun as a substitute for his soul.”
― Foster Kinn, The Poet, The Professor, and The Redneck: How Men Die, How They Live

“After saying goodbye to Cassie, Wyatt was alone, an everywhere stranger, his emotions disconnected like old kitchen items strewn around a dump. Loneliness was his only companion. But the loneliness itself was something he simply observed rather than felt so it didn’t bother him, but he did gradually come to worry about the fact that it didn’t. He wondered if he was dying. Maybe. It didn’t seem so, but still, maybe he was. Maybe he was already dead. That thought occurred to him, too.”
― Foster Kinn, The Poet, The Professor, and the Redneck: How Men Die, How They Live

“Today, while sitting in my car, I saw a couple of Hell’s Angels bikers. One smiled at me broadly. I smiled back and gave him a thumbs up. He nodded and was gone in a flash. All is right in the world.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“There was also a term for bikers called “target fixation.” When a rider looked at something for too long and focused on a passing object, or any small distraction to the left or right of him, he had an increased chance of colliding with that object. It was extremely dangerous to fixate. Any concentration expended that was not ahead of the rider oftentimes resulted in severe injury or death. A biker who wanted to live must not be thrown off course. And after miles and miles of riding, of looking ahead, of sixty mile per hour winds piercing his neck, the gloss of his eyes hardening, he naturally never target fixated on things or people either.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“And suddenly the motorcyclist felt ignited, that was, in the most subtle spark of need: to live in that alternate, finer side of life that was within reach and waited to be taken. It occurred to him what he wanted. And as that butterfly of chance flew past the biker’s soul, he eyed it and caught the white-winged sign instantly. There, he said to himself, I’ll go. And he attended to that meteoric obligation—that dear, vivacious reality unveiled by leaping humans. The biker wanted to see what a certain future looked like, and excitedly leaned back on his Triumph, released the clutch, and pushing off on the rubber footrests, leaned high up in the air to his right and threw himself off the bike.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“Those who give rise to hatred are the destroyers of humanity.”
― Paul Jamiol

“As for why it’s you, I don’t know, I don’t care.
It just is.
It could be ’cause you’re gorgeous.
It could be ’cause you’re funny.
It could be ’cause I like the way you handled Pete when he lost his daughter.
It could be ’cause you and me got Chaos in common, it’s us, it’s in our blood and this was meant to be.
It could be ’cause I like the way you are with your family.
It could be ’cause you get off on bein’ on the back of my bike almost as much as I get off straddling it.
I figure it’s all that and more. I am not gonna analyze it. I’m gonna feel it ’cause I like it and that’s all there is to it.”
― Kristen Ashley, Own the Wind

“It wasn’t about balance or partnership or sharing. It was about unity. They didn’t keep score, they just gave, and I figure that was why they didn’t fight. Because if you give, the other person is gonna give because they get that back. So the balance comes natural.”
― Kristen Ashley, Own the Wind

“She was going to have a beautiful life.”
― Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady

“Hear? I didn’t believe it. Not until then. Not until that. Something that was so Logan. He was the only person I knew who said that like he said it. Hear? He’d said that the first time I met him. He’d said it a million times after. And he’d just given it to me again. Not like he did when we were playing our crazy game. Like he used to give it to me. Wars were fought for things that had no meaning. Hearts were broken. Betrayals were committed. Fortunes were paid. Sacrifices were made. All for nothing. All for shit. But I’d give anything, battle to the death, break hearts, tell lies, pay every penny I owned, sell my soul to have back Logan’s hear? just like that. Something that meant the world because it meant I had him. And I had it back. Him back.”
― Kristen Ashley, Walk Through Fire

“On that, I pushed, shoved, desperate to get to a place where I could completely fade away and do it alone. Having been given too much too soon and paying the price by having it ripped away so that was all I’d ever have.
Nothing.
All I’d ever be.
Alone.
With all that, I made my final dash through the flames, making my way through the bar, out, and I ran to my car on my high heels. Destined to fade away. Ready to fade away. Needing nothing but to leave it all far behind.”
― Kristen Ashley, Walk Through Fire

“I’m done walking through fire for you, High!” I yelled.
“I’m done not because I’m done but because there’s nothing left of me to burn. You have it all! You’ve always had it all! I gave up everything so you could have it all! Please! God! Leave me to my nothing!” I swung an arm out to their table.
“And if you gave one single shit about me, ever, make them let me have my nothing!”
― Kristen Ashley, Walk Through Fire

“It’s just the way, and it’s a good way, and you know what I mean, Dad. I want a handful,” Rush went on. “I wanna wake up and not know what the day is gonna bring, mostly because she’s gonna make it an adventure. I want kids, and I want the woman I choose to make them with to be about them. To have all the love in the world for them. To make it so they know that and never doubt it. And you know why I want that.”
― Kristen Ashley, Free

“A woman who can love that deep, who’s got that kinda steel in her spine, the man who gets it, it’ll feel good to earn that love, keep it and have it. But he’ll have to understand what makes her and that he’ll have a lifetime of puttin’ out fires, dealin’ with emotional fallout, and proppin’ her up when the loads she takes on get too heavy.”
― Kristen Ashley, Free

“You had to know what you wanted to get it. You had to know it was right before you went for it. You had to pull out all the stops to make it yours. And you had to treat it right when you got it.”
― Kristen Ashley, Free

“I want a handful,” Rush went on. “I wanna wake up and not know what the day is gonna bring, mostly because she’s gonna make it an adventure. I want kids, and I want the woman I choose to make them with to be about them. To have all the love in the world for them. To make it so they know that and never doubt it.”
― Kristen Ashley, Free

“When you find the one you want to be with, there will never be an ‘enough is enough.’ There will never be a step too far when it comes to protecting them.”
― Addison Jane, Irrevocable

“Five a.m. was a blank-faced, indigo wall, trying to press her back into the house, into bed. Five a.m. didn’t want to be messed with or questioned. It wasn’t the insidious shifting shadow miasma of midnight. It was an angry schoolmarm that didn’t expect to be challenged.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“Every one wants to be a badass until they meet one.”
― Patrick Harrington, Recreating Patrick: An Inside Job

“What?”
“My safe word. Meatloaf.”
“Meatloaf?” I repeated incredulously.
“Yeah, because I would do anything for love, but I won’t do that.”
― A. J. Downey