Top 140 Raven Kennedy Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “If you insist on lying, at least be better at it.”

— Raven Kennedy

102. “Why am I so cursed to endure the greed of men?”

— Raven Kennedy

103. “All my life, men have had me, but I have never had a man.”

— Raven Kennedy

104. “I told him I wanted everything, and when you ask for everything from a person, you don’t get to pick and choose. You take them as they are.”

— Raven Kennedy

105. “But they have a lot of secrets. For one, they know Rip is fae, and now, they know I am too. I can’t even begin to try and untangle the repercussions of that, the what-ifs.”

— Raven Kennedy

106. “He’s being kind now, his voice no longer hard or accusatory as his hand comes down to pat me. His fingers graze adoringly over my head, a heeled pet to be stroked. And right then, I wonder how the hell I fooled myself into thinking this was love.”

— Raven Kennedy

107. “And right then, I wonder how the hell I fooled myself into thinking this was love.”

— Raven Kennedy

108. “She never asked what happened, and I didn’t offer up the information. But she knows. Women always do.”

— Raven Kennedy

109. “The golden satin slams into Midas’s face, feathers bending around his head with a satisfying thump. Juvenile, sure. But it does wonders for my morale.”

— Raven Kennedy

110. “There’s an internal compass inside of me that laid still for so long, stuck behind its arc of glass, listless and without hope. But it’s been spinning since the moment I left, begging me to follow my instincts. To move toward something better.”

— Raven Kennedy

111. “Even the most powerful can be made to feel powerless.”

— Raven Kennedy

112. “One should never decide something as serious as bangs when they have a bottle of wine in their stomachs.”

— Raven Kennedy

113. “She shakes her head, gently tipping my chin up. “No, Slade. Not you. You don’t break things. You protect them.”

— Raven Kennedy

114. “Between life and death. Then, with a raindrop on my cheek that might have spilled from my eye, I open the door and walk into the inn. And I die, just a little bit more.”

— Raven Kennedy

115. “Though, it seems to me that trying and failing is better than giving up.”

— Raven Kennedy

116. “Mouth dribbles red life, breath like choked water. Blue-tinged lips to match his eyes as they rain. My heart shatters itself against my ribs. He looks at me, my teardrops landing on his. I sob. He shudders. “It’s okay, it’s okay,” I cry. Lying for him, as he did for me. And with his last breath, he nods.”

— Raven Kennedy

117. “You’re mine, Auren. As wholly as I am yours. If there’s something you crave, if there’s some freedom you want to try the taste of, then you will do it, and I will be right there with you. Watching you devour your wants. And then I will devour you.”

— Raven Kennedy

118. “You’re very floppy.” I rest my head against his firm, muscled chest. “You’re very hard,” I counter. A rich, dark laugh slips from his mouth. “You’ve no idea.”

— Raven Kennedy

119. “My prioroties have changed. And I will let the world corrode and crumble in order to protect her.”

— Raven Kennedy

120. “He acts like my mere presence was a blot on the entire library, like I would’ve dog-eared a page or cracked a spine.”

— Raven Kennedy

121. “You may not be behind bars anymore, but you’re still in that cage. And I think part of you wants to stay in there because you’re afraid. But I think another part of you, the part you repress, is ready to be free.”

— Raven Kennedy

122. “To all the people who have been screwed over by cupids sticking their arrows where they don’t belong. May your book lovers be way more satisfying.”

— Raven Kennedy

123. “Are you a princess?” an older girl asks, but I smile and shake my head. “No. Are you?” The children all scoff together, trading looks. “You think princesses live in the shanties like street urchins?” I lower my hood and give her a conspiratorial smile. “Maybe hidden princesses do.”

— Raven Kennedy

124. “I pretty much lost all modesty once she rifled through my whiskerwallet and helped stretch out my lovelips. There’s just no coming back from that.”

— Raven Kennedy

125. “We’re all captives of something, even things we don’t want to admit to.”

— Raven Kennedy

126. “I kept taking it and taking it, convincing myself that this was the way it needed to be. Lying to myself because I loved him, because he manipulated me. I’ve been bending over backwards for so long that I forgot I even had a spine.”

— Raven Kennedy

127. “I stare at him, not in fear, but in recognition as the beast in me rises up and answers to the beast inside him.”

— Raven Kennedy

128. “She is everything I don’t deserve. But I’m going to keep her anyway.”

— Raven Kennedy

129. “Fury catches from the sparks, makes my eyes narrow in a squint. He expects me to falter beneath the threat, but instead, I burn hotter. “Touch them, and I’ll touch you.”

— Raven Kennedy

130. “But a simple friendship. Just two people who enjoy talking to each other, who can share stories and meet in laughter, conspiring only for one another’s amusement.”

— Raven Kennedy

131. “Bravo!” I yell to the actress who played the part of making two guys fall in love with her and then leaving them both for another female.”

— Raven Kennedy

132. “I cried beneath my parents’ kisses, but they told me to go. To be brave. That they would see me soon. One order, one urge, one lie.”

— Raven Kennedy

133. “I’m glad for the anger I see on his face. Misery may love company, but anger thrives on it.”

— Raven Kennedy

134. “I might not have magic, but resentment is a powerful thing.”

— Raven Kennedy

135. “Listen,” she whispers. So I do. I thread my fingers through her own, and I listen. But my song of home doesn’t come from the sun. Mine comes from her.”

— Raven Kennedy

136. “I find that midnight is often the most illuminating time.”

— Raven Kennedy

137. “I’ve found that some smells are strings tied around memories. When you catch certain scents, those strings pull taut.”

— Raven Kennedy

138. “Why do people run? It’s awful. Did you know people actually do this for fun? I saw humans do it all the time. There must be something wrong with their brains,” I narrow my eyes at him and gasp. “Oh gods, you run for fun, don’t you?” I ask. “What am I saying, of course you do. That explains why you’re so unhappy all the time.”

— Raven Kennedy

139. “Love happens in all kinds of ways. Fast. Slow. In bits and pieces, or immediate. Filled with lust, one-sided longing, a snap realization never noticed before. Deeply. Thoroughly. Love is a whisper we didn’t hear or a sound that drums in our ears and drowns out everything else.” Slade edges toward me, though I barely notice.”

— Raven Kennedy

140. “Because that’s what men did. They took and they hurt and no one ever stopped them.”

— Raven Kennedy