Top 180 Kennedy Ryan Quotes (2025 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. “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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4. “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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5. “In the words of that great comedic philosopher Kevin Hart, “We gon’ learn today!”

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

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7. “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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8. “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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9. “She’s the hardest-working woman I know and sees her life’s mission as raising three beautiful humans to be confident women who make the world a better place. Some might judge that, say a woman as smart as Soledad could do so much more. I see the power in choosing your own more. “So.”

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10. “I warned you that I’m not like other girls. I don’t have those limits. I’d do anything for you. It sounds romantic until it crosses your lines, huh? Until it goes too far.”

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11. “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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12. “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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13. “There is something about falling in love with a beautiful mind...”

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14. “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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15. “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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16. “Let me see your face. Let me hear your voice for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.”

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17. “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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18. “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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19. “When we are alone, you and I, through years, through pain, my heart will answer again and again, still.”

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20. “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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21. “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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22. “You’re worth the risk.”

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

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24. “I’m his and he’s mine.”

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

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

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

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31. “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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32. “I’ve fallen in love with the warrior woman who walked through fire, the one who came through stronger, reshaped by sorrow, reformed by grief, reborn in joy.”

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

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

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35. “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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36. “Probably for the rest of my life, a part of me would always hurt wondering if I could have had you.”

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37. “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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38. “She’s something rare – smart, classy, gorgeous, funny, opinionated, and under it all, where she tries to hide it, kind. And burrowed beneath all of that, vulnerable. She isn’t the kind of girl you mess over.”

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39. “Better todays make better tomorrows, and if you don’t get tomorrow at least you had today.”

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40. “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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41. “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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42. “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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43. “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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44. “Age ain’t nothing but a number.” “Please let Aaliyah rest in peace.”

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

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46. “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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47. “My beloved is mine and I am his. – Song of Solomon 2:16.”

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48. “There’s something helpless about truly being in love, the kind of love they write songs about, that inspires poetry and launches ships and wreaks havoc. It leaves you slightly off balance, controlling when you mean to cherish, smothering when you mean to hold close.”

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49. “What I’m saying is be unafraid to want it all and be disciplined enough to work hard to get it.”

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50. “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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