Can't Get Enough (Skyland, #3)

by Kennedy Ryan

For the ones who have used your magic to lift, protect, and illuminate everybody else… rest is our new resistance. Rest & shine, my loves. Rest & shine.

“A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny.” —Mary McLeod Bethune, educator, philanthropist, activist

One of the hardest parts of aging is being the one “still standing” when everyone else has found their peace lying down.

being in a place where your life happened, where the past is at your fingertips, is important.

We so rarely truly see people in their hurt. It’s even rarer not to flinch—not to look away from another’s pain.

If a man’s heart is carved out of his chest, do you have to remind him he’s missing a vital organ?

grief is a wave, washing in and washing out.

How do you articulate the ache of watching someone you love fade?

“We are not magic,” she says. “We are resilient. It’s not a wand. It’s work. We work harder and shine brighter to survive. Excellence for us has been a matter of necessity.

Memory is often imperfect, a menagerie of omissions and reshaped recollections,

A kernel of peace was better than the whole truth.”

“The right one won’t ask you to give up your dreams, but will care just as much as you do about them.”

There are parts of you that want to be held, want to be needed and loved. That is just as emotionally valid as the parts of you that crave independence.

“My life won’t be measured just in what I did, but who I did it with. Who I chose to be in friendship with. In relationship with. I think that’s where real contentment is found,

I’m good to you and you’re good to me. Being good to you means wanting what’s best for you.

Be good to each other.

Every love isn’t forever. We can love people along the way. Relationships can begin and then end.”

Strength is not always control. Sometimes it’s surrender.”

accepting. Accepting that you can’t control a wave, so you ride it.

“The plan is love. It’s the no matter how bad it gets or how much I want to run, I’ll stay kind of love.

Home Is Where the Start Is,

life up until the day we met had uniquely prepared my heart for yours.”