Top 180 Kennedy Ryan Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “She remembered who she was and the game changed.”

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2. “I have found the one whom my soul loves. – Song of Solomon 3:4.”

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3. “The heart speaks in whispers, but sometimes by the time we listen, it’s too late.”

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4. “Even when you think you’re defeated, dig deeper. Go harder. Press, because there is something worth it on the other side.”

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5. “In the words of that great comedic philosopher Kevin Hart, “We gon’ learn today!”

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6. “I’d play you at the five. If you were mine, you’d be at the center of my life. August’s words filter through tiny gaps in the barbed-wire fence surrounding my heart. That could be my place. Instinctively, I know August would put me at the center, but one could argue I was Caleb’s center, too. A dark, twisted center with the sides closing in and choking, but the center nonetheless.”

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7. “You ask me today if I love you, if I take you as my own to have and to hold, and my heart replies yes. Always, evermore, even after. Still. Not just today before a crowd, but when we are alone, you and I, through years, through pain, My heart will answer again and again, still.”

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8. “On rare occasion, you come across someone who just gets you, and you don’t have to figure out your place. Wherever you are is okay.”

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9. “There will be men who fall in love with your skin and others who drown themselves in everything that lies beneath.” -Cindy Cherie, Poetess.”

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10. “When we are alone, you and I, through years, through pain, my heart will answer again and again, still.”

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11. “A long shot?” I ask, pausing at the door to give him a cocky grin. “Last I heard, I’m pretty good at those.”

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12. “There is something about falling in love with a beautiful mind...”

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13. “Winston Churchill said history is written by the victors, but I would amend that to say it’s often written by liars. History is fact. You can’t change what happened, but you can edit it. People lie and leave out the truth, bend it to suit their needs.”

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14. “The back of his hand slams into my mouth, shoving any other words down my throat. I stumble. My back hits the mirror, sending spikes of pain through my shoulder. I’ve never been hit in the face. My mother didn’t bother disciplining me. Though I saw men hit her and my aunt from time to time, no man has ever hit me, so I didn’t know. I couldn’t have known that the first hit, that baptism into violence, doesn’t just sting the flesh. It startles the soul.”

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15. “Death has a way of uniting or dividing. Families come together and draw comfort from each other or fight about wills and the things that have kept them apart.”

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16. “I was no walk in the park, Merry.” “Who wants to walk in the park? I think that man would run wild with you.”

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17. “When you walk through hell with someone, you burn, too. The flames don’t respect your privacy, your boundaries. They consume your time, torch your dignity, and turn your peace of mind to ashes.”

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18. “Let me see your face. Let me hear your voice for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.”

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19. “A riot is the language of the unheard.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”

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20. “You’re worth the risk.”

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21. “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism,” I quote. “I love this country too much to settle for the lies written in our history books. I love the constitution too much not to hold the men who wrote it accountable for the truth of its principles.”

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22. “I’m his and he’s mine.”

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23. “Struggle does not make you weak,” she whispers back. “Struggling against those who hold us is what makes us, over time, stronger than they are. Strong enough to fight back. Strong enough to win.”

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24. “You save all your tears for the things that set you on fire inside.”

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25. “They buried us, but they didn’t know we were seeds.”

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26. “Besides, it’s the dreamers, the inventors and entrepreneurs who change the world the most. Gutenberg, Edison, Stephenson, Jobs – something about the present wasn’t good enough, so they made the future.” I almost choke on a jaded chuckle. “What do politicians make? They make war. They make profit off the misfortune of others. They make mistakes they won’t take responsibility for and decisions they never have to feel the impact of. No, thank you. Not for me.”

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27. “Then she laughed and I wondered if this – finding someone you can laugh with when everything hurts – was the stuff happily ever afters were made of.”

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28. “OVERTIME “I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” – Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.”

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29. “Age ain’t nothing but a number.” “Please let Aaliyah rest in peace.”

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30. “No one in my whole life has ever hurt me like you did.”

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31. “Depression,” she goes on, “is a liar. If it will tell you no one loves you, that you’re not good enough, that you’re a burden or, in the most extreme cases, better off dead, then it can certainly convince you that you’re better off without the man you love, and that, ultimately, he’s better off without you.”

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32. “Art, specifically music, is a living thing,” he says. “It isn’t just absorbed by the people who hear it, but it absorbs them.”

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33. “Iris is my constellation. She took the darkness as her cue to shine. It only made her brighter, stronger, and tonight, her hard-won glimmer lights up the sky.”

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34. “I heard someone say once that when you try to fix people’s hurt, you’re controlling it instead of sitting with them and connecting.”

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35. “I come here with my heart bleeding on my sleeve, and it’s still not enough for him. He needs me to cut it out and hand it to him in chunks of flesh and blood.”

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36. “We just tiptoe around things, afraid we’ll offend or look ignorant, be misunderstood. Honesty is a risk few are willing to take.”

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37. “I howl like a wounded animal, but there’s no one to rescue me. I am the dumb lamb that wandered from the fold, and I’ve stumbled into the razor teeth of a hunter’s trap.”

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38. “Yes.” MiMi’s affirmation infuses the air with power. “Strength. Dignity. Courage. All these things belong to you. Take them back. Your soul is yours. Your heart is yours. Your body is yours. Yours to keep and yours to share.” Yours to keep and yours to share.”

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39. “As much as she lights up a room, dancing, laughing from time to time, I’m beginning to see that just beneath the surface of Kai, there is as much shadow as there is shine.”

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40. “You want me to relieve you of the responsibility? ‘Cause I’ll do it. I don’t mind being the villain, but between you and me, we’ll know that you want it as badly as I do. I’m just the one with the balls to make it happen.”

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41. “But the daughter of a lion is still a lion, and this is your domain.”

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42. “With whispered promises and words of love, we exchange hearts.”

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43. “If you were mine, Iris there would be no doubt what position you’d hold in my life. You’d be center. I’d play you at the five.”

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44. “Every day that ends with me still breathing has ended well.”

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45. “He studies me a moment longer, and the intimacy and openness are almost too much, but I force myself not to look away. I’ve never been more vulnerable to anyone, and I’ve never trusted anyone else the way I trust Grip – with my life, with my heart.”

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46. “Hope is the gap between what if and what is, but you have to fill that gap with a lot of hard work.”

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47. “I think the ambiguity of her beauty is part of her appeal. Something elusive and indefinable. I would never have guessed the ethnicities that coalesced to make a face like hers – the wide, full lips, copper skin and striking bone structure. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone like her. Hers is not a face you would soon forget. Maybe never.”

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48. “She is day and I am night. When day and night are absolutely equal, it’s equinox. Banner is my equinox. My equal.”

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49. “Then you have some tough decisions to make, and you should make them soon.” He bends to drop a soft kiss on my nose. “Because I won’t give up until you’re completely mine, Banner, and I won’t wait much longer.”

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50. “Are you looking at my butt?” I ask, waffling between flattered and offended. “Of course,” Jared replies as if I’m crazy for asking. “I actually wish you’d stop talking because I was literally committing your ass in those pants to memory, and you’re breaking my concentration.”

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