Top 180 Kennedy Ryan Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Sometimes we have to fight our way out of the dark because the light doesn’t come looking.”

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102. “My therapist says sometimes the people who are always keeping things together are the least prepared when they actually fall apart.”

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103. “You signed up for me... And I signed up for you, whatever that means, wherever that takes us.”

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104. “There is no one else but you, my friend, my equal.” – Song of Solomon 5:2.”

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105. “You heard me. I don’t have a girlfriend anymore. Cindy and I broke up.” “But I’m not your type,” I blurt. “And yet I broke up with her so you,” he says, laying the tip of one long finger on my breastbone, “would kiss me.”

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106. “My feelings are a hot stove I want to test, even knowing the last time how it burned.”

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107. “But there’s something more fragile about her this time. I’m a big guy. I’m sometimes clumsy and not always careful. Whatever is fragile about her, I’d rather die than break.”

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108. “But religion, as it’s tossed around now, has so little compassion. So little humanity, and faith is first human.”

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109. “I withhold nothing from him. Not my body – he can have it any way he wants it. Not my heart – flung open like a door for him to walk through. Not my soul – twisting around his every time he hammers up into me, possessing me from the inside out.”

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110. “Life is a constellation of decisions, connected by coincidences and deliberations, painting pictures in the heavens. During the day, when things are brightest, we don’t see the stars, but they are there. It’s only in the contrast of night, when things are darkest, that the stars shine.”

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111. “I will live this day in gratitude,” I whisper, the words mingling with the smoke I scoop over my face. “Grateful to be alive and breathing and able to give and receive love. I will face every obstacle with the boldness of those who follow me, and with the courage of those who came before.”

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112. “You’re a great player, August.” She tips up on her toes until her lips are at my ear. “But I think you’ll be an even greater man.”

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113. “Banner is completely mine and wholly her own. I love that about her.”

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114. “She’s right. I’m dirty. How could I not be after that animal was inside me? After he subdued me like a rabbit he only left alive for sport?”

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115. “Do what you need to do. Change your world,” he says softly, his eyes connected to mine so intensely there’s no hope of looking away. “I have to go make my world, but when the time is right, I’ll be back for you.”

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116. “He runs a finger over my nose. I jerk back, startled. “You still have the freckles.” “What?” I rub my nose, wiping away his touch. “You had seven freckles on your nose then,” he says, one side of his mouth canted up. “You still do.”

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117. “Love is as strong as death.”

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118. “Oh, I want you.” Lust roughens his voice. Love makes it soft. His gaze drops, a lazy, heated sweep over my body, a sweet searing of my skin. The look is as heavy as a stroking hand, but so gentle that I barely feel its tantalizing weight.”

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119. “Rhyson’s words set my heart free like a stampede of wild notes across a music staff, falling off the lines, running off the page. I’m a composition out of control, without form. Freestyled. Improvised.”

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120. “Take them back. Your soul is yours. Your heart is yours. Your body is yours. Yours to keep and yours to share.”

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121. “Life is the grand equalizer. It has a way of stripping those privileges, rendering them inconsequential.”

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122. “History is so picked over, by the time you get to the tree, there’s barely any fruit left.”

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123. “I don’t give a damn about odds,” she says. “Odds don’t tell me what I can’t do. Odds just tell me how hard I’ll have to work to get what I want. Don’t allow anyone to make you feel less.”

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124. “It means seeing myself clearly – good, bad, beautiful, ugly, faults, mistakes – acknowledging what I really think and feel, and not judging those emotions. Understanding myself. Not censoring it. Having compassion for myself.”

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125. “Thank you, MiMi.” I blink at my tears with my head tucked into her long, silver braid. “I feel so weak sometimes, and you make me feel strong.”

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126. “I don’t know if it’s mine or if it’s hers, but this moment, this perfect glass-blown moment where our bodies unite and our souls intersect, this moment belongs to us.”

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127. “The heart speaks in whispers. I heard too late.”

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128. “He’s looking at me like I’m the sunrise and he’s grateful for a brand new day.”

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129. “But now and for the rest of my life, Kai is the living, breathing address that is my home. She’s my entire damn zip code. In.”

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130. “Your zip code shouldn’t determine the quality of your education.”

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131. “Seeing you wear my number is like a wet dream wrapped in a hand job.”

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132. “Oh.” That’s the best I can do. It’s been so many years, and I hope we can put this behind us, but I hadn’t planned on confronting this particular demon for Christmas.”

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133. “I love your body because it has you in it.”

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134. “Every time I’m near her I want to pour accelerant all over my anger so it burns us both to ash.”

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135. “No.” I want to take her with him just yards away.”

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136. “Don’t you feel how connected we are?” I ask. “If I break your heart, I break mine.” A sweet smile spreads over her lips and she nods.”

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137. “And every time I make you smile, I feel like I’ve conquered the world.”

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138. “I look at her, cataloging her features one by one and realizing the most fascinating thing about this girl isn’t visible to the naked eye.”

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139. “No matter what happens, my heart and my soul, I give them to you. They’re yours to keep.” “Yours to keep,” I echo back to him, threading our fingers together. “The only thing that’s true, that’s real, is this, Pep.” He pulls my other hand over his heart, pressing his hand over mine. “So you don’t have to worry about losing me. You can’t lose me. My soul is lodged that deeply in yours. I’m completely yours.”

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140. “Your story is your most powerful weapon. We must use our hurts to help. I.”

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141. “Say it again.” He advances deeper into the room until he stands right in front of me. “I need to hear it again.” “I love you,” I say, my voice sober and honest. “I think I have for a long time.” He cups my cheek and kisses my hair. “Me, too,” he says, the look in his eyes belying the casual tone of his voice. “Since senior year, to be exact.”

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142. “She is bright and good. And I can be dark, bad when I have to be. Sometimes when I don’t have to be, but just want to be. She is day and I am night. When day and night are absolutely equal, it’s equinox. Banner is my equinox. My equal. The revelation rattles around inside me, but my face, my surface remains smooth.”

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143. “Breathe out the lies. That it was your fault. That you failed. That you are what they said you were. Breathe in truth. You are pure. You are enough. You are strong.”

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144. “No one has to tell a queen to wear her crown.”

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145. “I’ve never felt like this about anyone else, and I’m not giving you up once I have you. You better get used to that.”

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146. “But you have one more time to put your finger in my face and step to me.”

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147. “My waters rise, and like a river bursting free of its banks, I overflow.”

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148. “There is no place, no spot on the continuum of time that could have hidden this man from me.”

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149. “Everyone falls for Banner. Whether they feel like she’s the daughter they never had, like Karen does, or like she’s the best thing that ever happened to their business, like that blowhard Cal Bagley. Or that she’s the only girl for them, like Zo does. Too bad about Zo because she’s actually the only girl for me. He’ll find someone else. I have faith in him.”

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150. “You’re not asking the wrong question. Is it the most important question, though?”

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