Block Shot (Hoops, #2)

by Kennedy Ryan

“There will be men who fall in love with your skin and others who drown themselves in everything that lies beneath.”

The gulf between the truth and the lies we tell ourselves is filled with misery.

“Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you." -Viola Davis,

You are your greatest natural resource and don’t let anyone strip you of that or tell you it’s not enough.

You are enough

“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.”

“We can be fierce and feminine. Tenderhearted and tough as nails. Life is seldom binary.

the daughter of a lion is still a lion,

“Never do anything you can’t live with or walk away from the person you can’t live without.” -Pee Wee Kirkland, Basketball Legend

When you walk through hell with someone, you burn, too.

loving someone is the most selfless thing you can do,” August says quietly. “It’s not always about what you want from that person but what you want for them. What’s best for them. What makes them the best version of themselves.

The things you love about her—the good, the compassion, the sense of right and wrong–will all be deconstructed and set aside for you.

want you to leave him and come to me, but the irony is I want you so badly because you never would. Your heart, integrity, strength of character . . . they draw me to you.”

“Good people may do bad things, wrong things,” he says. “But they are still good people, still capable of doing amazing things, and Banner has more than proven that.”