Top 180 Kennedy Ryan Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “It’s us admitting to the universe we don’t have all the answers. Too often religion says yes, I do have all the answers, and if you don’t like them, you can’t sit at my table. So we have all these tables. Too many tables, and not enough love.”

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152. “I’m so ready, Bristol could breathe on me and I’d probably come all over her.”

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153. “He’s also sharp. I’d know immediately if someone wanted my girl, and I could be wrong, but I think Zo is sharp enough to at least suspect I want his. Only I don’t think of Banner as his. Banner was taken from me.”

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154. “She looks like me,” he says. “I told you we’re twins. Lemme check the Cloud for a picture.” Did.”

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155. “So what color am I then?” I ask before thinking better of it. He’ll probably just say I’m white, obviously. “What color are you?” he repeats, his eyes never leaving my face. “You, Bristol, are a freaking prism.”

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156. “What if she gave me to you?” I bend to whisper over her lips. “What if I’m your gris gris now?”

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157. “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. Unsure of where we’re going, but certain that it’s right. Sure that in the end, it will be a thing of beauty. “You.”

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158. “We all know you’re a gifted athlete, August. Don’t just show off. Show us you can lead.”

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159. “Damn, my head hurts. That’s what happens when Jolly the Big Ass Giant elbows you in the head.”

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160. “However imperfect she appears to some, she is ours, and we already love her deeply and will treasure any time we have with her.”

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161. “I’ll take Banner any way I can get her. Snorted, smoked, shot in my veins. I want her with marrow-level hunger, the kind you have to dig inside your bones to satisfy.”

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162. “Emotion tells you about love, but hard times prove it. How can you know something is great unless it’s tested? Until then, it’s just an assumption. It’s a question, but life has a way of answering.”

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163. “But I want to hear the same dismay and curiosity,” he continues, his smile leveling out. “About the issues that are actually eroding our communities. Let’s ask why black men are six percent of the general population and nearly forty percent of the prison population.”

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164. “That’s the part of depression people don’t consider, that at times it physically hurts.”

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165. “My mother’s story has no end. Her life was interrupted mid-sentence -a dangling participle. An infinite etcetera of dots, but no period.”

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166. “I know it’s unreasonable because I met her no more than an hour ago. We’ve had one conversation. Some people leave an impression. Lennix Moon Hunter has left more than an impression. She’s left her mark on me. And it’s shaped like a star.”

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167. “Your views on the two-party system are well-documented and duly noted.” “I don’t understand a nation that grew so powerful using capitalism, which is essentially about choice and options and hard work, being so lazy as to give us only two options, usually bad ones, in something as crucial as leading the free world.”

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168. “What if he decides someday the one thing he really wants, really needs is the one thing I can never be?”

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169. “Extraordinary wants no parts of normal.”

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170. “Dwell in possibility.”

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171. “Grief handed me a heart of iron, and I rusted it with my tears, a muscle not made of flesh, not pumping blood.”

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172. “A few moments with the truth don’t chase away the lies forever,” she says, pushing back the sweat-dampened hair clinging to my face. “Lies don’t give up easily. You’ll have to remind yourself and heal yourself over and over, every time they come.” “You mean I need to talk to a therapist?” I ask. I’ve thought of that and probably will at some point. “Yes.” Her smile is that of a younger woman, knowing, teasing. “And sleep naked sometimes. Soon, you’ll want again.”

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173. “As the stars dim and the darkness encroaches, I understand I’m like those who stayed too long, blindly assuming their survival.”

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174. “Breathe in truth.” Her hands are busy in the air over me, slicing through lies. “You are pure. You are enough. You are strong.” She leans closer, her whisper as sharp and fierce as the knife in her drawer. “He can’t hurt you.”

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175. “You’re right.” I loosen my fingers from hers so I can hold her face between both hands. “Going to Houston is my best shot at winning a ring.” “Then why would you – ” “But staying here,” I cut in, caressing the fullness of her bottom lip with my thumb. “Staying is my best shot at winning you.”

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176. “I’ll never forget this moment when, through the abject fear and despair and exhaustion saturating her eyes, I glimpse her trust in me. It’s the greatest gift I’ve ever received.”

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177. “But we are sometimes in the most danger when we let our guards down, when we let peace deceive us and trick us into forgetting.”

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178. “Your dreams and ambitions got swallowed up when you had to follow Caleb,” I say, holding her eyes with mine. “I want you to know there’s someone who will follow you.”

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179. “Electric current spears me down the middle, landing in my core. He sucks all the oxygen from the room, and my lungs desperately push breath from my chest. He studies me under hooded lids, knowing exactly what he’s doing to me.”

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180. “The girl who chases stars landed on the moon, planted her flag, and I’ve been hers ever since.”

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181. “I know I said my compass spins.” Emotion makes it hard to get the words out. “But not with you.”

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182. “Let’s get some outrage over people of color getting longer sentences for the same crimes other people commit.”

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183. “I want you to find someone you love more than your art.”

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184. “He’s dictating my heartbeat, governing my pulse, holding my next breath cupped in his hands.”

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185. “Funny how the words he doesn’t say can sting more than the ones he does.”

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186. “What?” I ask, smiling back involuntarily. “Your laugh,” he says. “I want to make you laugh like that every day.”

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187. “What should be foreign feels familiar.”

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188. “She’s not someone you banished with therapy and meds. She is you. You cannot dissociate from her. Until you reconcile that, you won’t find true peace. Until you have compassion for her instead of judgment, you cannot fully heal.”

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189. “That,” she says, “is an irreversible outcome. Divorce may or may not be. Broken relationships may or may not be. You may never repair those completely, but you’re still here to try. Do you recognize what an amazing gift that is? To still be here to try?”

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190. “When other people are as outraged and as curious about those problems as black people are,” he says. “Then maybe we can solve them together.”

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191. “I got serious the last few years about my outside reflecting the confident, powerful woman I was on the inside.”

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192. “I know exactly what I want.” He bends and leaves featherlight kisses on my lips. “I want another chance with you, Banner. The chance that was taken from us. I want to make love to you with the lights on.”

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193. “Nothing against fake lashes. I just don’t like it when the woman blinking them is fake, too.”

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194. “Tomorrow,” she says from the screen, from a wheelchair precipitously close to the edge of a pier, “is the most presumptuous word in the world, because who knows if you even get that.”

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195. “How do people do this? When the rug is pulled out from under the life the thought they would have forever, how do they pretend it’s not seismic? That the roof hasn’t fallen in and they’re trapped under a concrete beam?”

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196. “Children and bored adults need to be entertained. Grown men living with purpose require time and quiet and energy.”

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197. “What color are you?” he repeats, his eyes never leaving my face. “You, Bristol, are a freaking prism.”

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198. “I guide her back down to the couch, and with a hand at her shoulder, urge her to stretch out. I’d shave points off my GPA for a glimpse of her, but she doesn’t want that. I get it, so I settle for a taste.”

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199. “A miracle you can count on.”

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