Kennedy Ryan

“We can’t give up on each other.”

— Kennedy Ryan

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

— Kennedy Ryan

“Dwell in possibility.”

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“What should be foreign feels familiar.”

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“Wealth doesn't give you superpowers.”

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“I like the color of smart, the shade of funny, and sexy is my favorite hue.”

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“I bet your leg has gone to sleep.” “Not my third leg.”

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“Marlon James, you better fix her.” It takes the rest of the day to reprogram Nina...”

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“When I thought of my husband, I didn’t dream in color, I dreamt in character.”

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

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

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“Still?” she asks with a watery smile. “Yeah.” Always. Evermore. Even after. “Still.”

— Kennedy Ryan

“A new day means new mercies, she’d always say. God’s mercies are new every morning.”

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“I’ll never forget this moment when, through the abject fear and despair and exhaustion saturating her eyes, I glimpse her trust in…

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“I will kiss him a million times in our life together and never tire of it. My lips will always cling, curious…

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“But Bristol is all kinds of things I could not have anticipated or prepared for. Her curiosity, her authenticity, and her honesty…

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

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“I always thought Walsh would fall in love with some girl no one saw coming. He's a closet romantic.”

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

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“Don’t you feel how connected we are?” I ask. “If I break your heart, I break mine.” A sweet smile spreads over…

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“A scarlet sash cords her waist, and her bright red heels scream “fuck me.” But it’s Bristol, so they could whisper it,…

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“Electric current spears me down the middle, landing in my core. He sucks all the oxygen from the room, and my lungs…

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“We feel the things we need to know instead of say them. With my chest pressed to his back, forgiveness, love, understanding,…

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“It started at her mouth with just a wobble, a tremble of her lips. Then her hands joined in, fingers shaking until…

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“He studies me a moment longer, and the intimacy and openness are almost too much, but I force myself not to look…

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“There’s something helpless about truly being in love, the kind of love they write songs about, that inspires poetry and launches ships…

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“Oh, no. By no means.” Grip leans back, considering me from under heavy eyelids. “I don’t care what color a girl is.…

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“But if you don’t ride me hard enough, I’m flipping you over and tearing that ass up. Got it?” “That sounds fair.”…

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“She’s something rare—smart, classy, gorgeous, funny, opinionated, and under it all, where she tries to hide it, kind. And burrowed beneath all…

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“It was only an instant. The look that passed between them was like a flare in the pitch of night. Bright. Hot.…

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

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

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“And it still isn’t enough. Anything that ended would never be enough for a love like ours. A love like ours is…

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“This loving, generous, captivating woman had probably lived through hell and emerged like a butterfly with scorched wings.”

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

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“He’s lightning in a beautiful bottle, just waiting to strike. A pending storm. He’s hypnotizing. Intoxicating. I’m as buzzed off him as…

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“I believe we go where we’re supposed to go when we’re supposed to and that people are in our lives when they’re…

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

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“We both gave each other space to be misunderstood, because we really wanted to understand.”

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