Top 380 Elle Kennedy Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “If I was Colson.” “Yes.” “And you were my girl.” “Yes.” Ryder leans in, his warm breath on my ear, sending a tiny shiver through my body. “We would have been behind this curtain five minutes after we got here.” “Doing what?” I regret the question the moment I voice it. “Getting you primed.” My throat closes up with arousal. I struggle to swallow. “Primed,” I echo weakly. “Primed for what?” “For me.”

— Elle Kennedy

352. “I don’t love change, personally. I prefer stability. Once I feel comfortable with something – a place, a person, a routine – I want it to last forever. I hate that it never does.”

— Elle Kennedy

353. “Seriously? We spent the night together and you can’t spare two more seconds to kiss me goodbye?”

— Elle Kennedy

354. “Oh, trust me, Wyatt’s not exempt. There’s a reason he never brings girls home. He did it once when he was nineteen. Poor girl spent the weekend being interrogated by my husband and then flew back to Nashville and never spoke to Wyatt again.”

— Elle Kennedy

355. “I happen to be skilled in the art of gentlemanry.”

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356. “I’m not good enough for you,” I whisper against her lips. Alarm fills her eyes. “Ryder – ” “I don’t know if I’ll ever be. But I want to try.”

— Elle Kennedy

357. “Damn it. Now I know why my mom can never stay mad at him. It’s because he goes around saying things like that.”

— Elle Kennedy

358. “Of course I’m up,” I grumble, rubbing my eyes. “How am I supposed to sleep when you two fucktards are standing at the foot of my bed talking about angels blowing their loads?” Garrett snickers. “Like I’m the first one to ever wonder about that.”

— Elle Kennedy

359. “We all love. We’re the same. And your past, who you live with, where you came from, it doesn’t have to matter.”

— Elle Kennedy

360. “He asked me, as a friend, to have dinner with him tonight. It’s not a date, and I am the most loyal fake girlfriend you will ever have. I fake love you, Shane. I want to fake marry you and have your fake babies. Okay?” I glare at her. “Uncalled for. I can’t believe you brought our fake children into this.”

— Elle Kennedy

361. “You host a show with Jake Connelly, the most beautiful man in the world. Trust me, you’re going to get the views.” “Nope, nope, nope,” he groans. “You know how I feel when you talk about Connelly’s stupid looks. It triggers my crippling inferiority.”

— Elle Kennedy

362. “I think that’s all they really wanted, anyway. For someone to listen.”

— Elle Kennedy

363. “Seriously, Grace, don’t stress. You know what they say – haters be hating, and bitches be bitching.”

— Elle Kennedy

364. “But that’s what you do when you love people. Support their interests.”

— Elle Kennedy

365. “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

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

— Elle Kennedy

367. “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

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

— Elle Kennedy

369. “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

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

— Elle Kennedy

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

— Elle Kennedy

372. “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

373. “Is this a joke? Do you realize I’m Garrett Graham?”

— Elle Kennedy

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

— Elle Kennedy

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

— Elle Kennedy

376. “Most of the popular kids are total douchebags. Case in point – Garrett Graham, the other star athlete in this class.”

— Elle Kennedy

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

— Elle Kennedy

378. “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

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

— Elle Kennedy

380. “When the apocalypse comes,” I mutter at my own slow, painful torture, “and some dude with a baseball bat is standing over me asking if I have any last words for my maker, I’ll tell him I’ve stared into the face of darkness and fear has no power over me.”

— Elle Kennedy

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

— Elle Kennedy

382. “How did I go so long without noticing you, damn it? Why did it take seeing a stupid A on your midterm to make me notice?”

— Elle Kennedy

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

— Elle Kennedy

384. “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

385. “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

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

— Elle Kennedy

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

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388. “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

389. “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

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

— Elle Kennedy

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

— Elle Kennedy