Top 380 Elle Kennedy Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “It’s okay, baby,” she says. “No, it’s not okay. He’s gone.” “I know.” “So how is that okay?” “It has to be. Otherwise, I’m going to drown,” she whispers.”

— Elle Kennedy

302. “I put up with all this nonsense because at the end of the day, being with Garrett is worth it.”

— Elle Kennedy

303. “If I could be goaded into a bare-knuckle brawl by the dumbest kid in remedial pre-school, I wouldn’t have this well developed sense of superiority.”

— Elle Kennedy

304. “Diana and I have a love-hate relationship. As in, she hates me, and I love to annoy her.”

— Elle Kennedy

305. “You’re not going to ask me to be your partner?” Rather than answer, Diana starts to laugh. “What’s so funny?” “You thought I would actually ask you.”

— Elle Kennedy

306. “Buy a man flowers, at least. Or hell, lead off with a good joke. But it is what it is, I suppose.”

— Elle Kennedy

307. “I want you to remember that no matter where I am, I’ll always be with you. Watching out for you.”

— Elle Kennedy

308. “I wonder if he longs for a maternal figure. He lost his when he was six, and it couldn’t have been easy growing up without his mother. Even worse that his replacement for her was a series of foster moms who never stuck around long enough to care.”

— Elle Kennedy

309. “The egg says nothing because it’s a goddamn egg.”

— Elle Kennedy

310. “A real man admits when he has a problem, Dad always says.”

— Elle Kennedy

311. “I have this terrible habit of wanting to make everyone happy, even if it means sacrificing my own happiness.”

— Elle Kennedy

312. “Of course not. I just want to make sure we’re on the same page. I only kissed you because I got caught up in my girlfriend role.” “You don’t have to explain it. I’m on the same page.” “So you were playing a part too?” “No, I wanted to kiss you.” That shuts me up.”

— Elle Kennedy

313. “I think you might be the only girl who’s ever turned him down.”

— Elle Kennedy

314. “Does your father-in-law pay you to be his hype man? Or you do it for free to score approval points?”

— Elle Kennedy

315. “He might be crushing on my girlfriend, but he’s still the best friend I’ve ever had.”

— Elle Kennedy

316. “Like hell I can’t,” I growl. And then I give him another firm shove, forcibly moving him out of my way. “That’s my wife out there.”

— Elle Kennedy

317. “He studies me for long enough to make me shift in discomfort, then sighs. “Ryder. That, right there” – he points toward the front door, indicating the woman who’d just left – “is a girlfriend. And you, right here, aren’t a boyfriend.”

— Elle Kennedy

318. “That’s harsh.” “You don’t owe people your forgiveness.”

— Elle Kennedy

319. “Demi makes me forget that other people inhabit the world with us.”

— Elle Kennedy

320. “Grace and I have had numerous conversations about what’ll happen when we get married – when, not if, because come on now. We’re end game and we both know it.”

— Elle Kennedy

321. “Sorry, Daddy.” He snickers mid-bite, a few crumbs flying out of his mouth. He picks up his napkin. “You’re not allowed to call me that in public.” Mischief dances in his green eyes. “Save it for later.”

— Elle Kennedy

322. “You should be prepared,” Owen eventually says, glancing over to grin at me. “For what?” “You’re gonna marry that girl.”

— Elle Kennedy

323. “Don’t die yet. Let me come on your face first.”

— Elle Kennedy

324. “Tuck’s home, so I suggest we use our indoor voices.”

— Elle Kennedy

325. “As TJ ambles off, Hunter stares after him, shaking his head ruefully. “Poor guy.” “What does that mean?” “It means, poor guy. He’s got a major crush on you, but he’s so deep in the friend zone it’d take the same rescue team that dug out the Chilean miners to save him. And even then I think they’d fail.”

— Elle Kennedy

326. “I told them I had a girlfriend.” I start to laugh. “This is the greatest day of my life.” “Oh, it gets better, Dixon. I told them it was you.”

— Elle Kennedy

327. “You’re just as much a part of this family as your brother and sister are. Blood doesn’t make a family – love does.”

— Elle Kennedy

328. “I hate these stupid things,” I complain as I move the hoop aside. “They’re a menace.” “You’re a menace.”

— Elle Kennedy

329. “Nobody likes failure, G. But I maintain that this isn’t failure. This is just one moment in time.” “A moment in time,” she echoes weakly. “Yes, and right now, in this moment, you’re down. But that’s okay because I’m here to lift you up.” “Always?” she whispers, peering at me with those big gray eyes. “Always. You fall, I pick you up. Always.”

— Elle Kennedy

330. “We want to see all of you. The good, the bad, the wild.”

— Elle Kennedy

331. “There’s a female in my bedroom and neither of us is naked. It’s strange. But kinda nice.”

— Elle Kennedy

332. “Only con is that he sings everything.” “Like he sings a lot of songs?” “No.” She groans. “He sings everything. Like, ‘I a-am go-ing to chew-ooh some guuuum nowwww!”

— Elle Kennedy

333. “Then there’s the intelligence that practically radiates from you. Did I ever tell you smart women seriously turn me on?” His thumbs began caressing her cheeks and he bent to whisper close to her ear. “You’re a walking contradiction, Hayden. Prim and proper one moment, wild and uninhibited the next. And the more I get to know you, the more I like what I find.”

— Elle Kennedy

334. “I bring my lips close to her ear and murmur, “We’re kinda friends now.” “I heard that,” Garrett pipes up. “And there’s no ‘kinda’ about it. We’re best friends, Nelly. Don’t let Wellsy tell you otherwise.”

— Elle Kennedy

335. “I would like to congratulate each and every one of you for ruining my Saturday plans with my granddaughter. She’s ten years old and recently developed an affinity for tiger sharks, and she cried when I told her I couldn’t take her to the aquarium today. Everyone, give yourselves a round of applause for making a ten-year-old girl cry.”

— Elle Kennedy

336. “I don’t want people approaching me. That sounds awful.”

— Elle Kennedy

337. “I’ll be your bodyguard, and your bartender, and most importantly your friend. I promise to look out for you tonight wellsy.”

— Elle Kennedy

338. “Thanks for having me, Mrs. Graham.” “Oh, call me Hannah, please,” she insists. Her husband offers a deceptively pleasant smile. “And you can call me Mr. Graham.”

— Elle Kennedy

339. “Would it kill you to smile?” I peer at him over the rim of my glass. “I’ve seen you do it, so I know your face is capable of arranging the muscles in that way.”

— Elle Kennedy

340. “Maybe we never got the family we deserved, but we ended up with the one we needed.”

— Elle Kennedy

341. “Drunk girls give the best compliments.”

— Elle Kennedy

342. “Sometimes I think the dementia was worse than his actual death.”

— Elle Kennedy

343. “This blinding ring on Allie’s finger is like a billboard announcing to everyone we know and everyone we’re gonna know, that this woman is mine. She owns my heart.”

— Elle Kennedy

344. “Always. You fall, I pick you up. Always.”

— Elle Kennedy

345. “On that note, you can leave now. I have a margarita to drink and four episodes of Fling or Forever to catch up on.” “Cool. Wanna order a pizza? I’ll grab some beer from my apartment.” I stare at him. “I didn’t invite you.” “Oh, I invited myself. Was that not clear?”

— Elle Kennedy

346. “Well, either that or high.”

— Elle Kennedy

347. “I’ve shielded you your entire life. That’s what I do. I’m your dad. I try to make sure the bad stuff doesn’t reach you.”

— Elle Kennedy

348. “Life’s too short to not do all the things I want to do.”

— Elle Kennedy

349. “Later, Dixon.” “Thanks for the ride, Daddy.” “Don’t turn me on this early in the morning, please.”

— Elle Kennedy

350. “I see the difference now. I see the importance of picking the right woman to do life with. Preferably someone who can make you laugh your ass off.”

— Elle Kennedy