Can't Get Enough Quotes

“I want my love to be the most extravagant gift I ever give you,” he whispers, his voice deep and reverent. “I want it to be outrageously unconditional. I want it to overflow and spill into every crevice of your life, every corner of your heart because that’s what you do for me. You overwhelm me, Hendrix.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“No, not giving up—accepting. Accepting that you can’t control a wave, so you ride it.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“I’ve learned to block out the noise of other people’s opinions and live my life the way I want to. The way that makes me happy,”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“The right one won’t ask you to give up your dreams, but will care just as much as you do about them.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“You deserve it, too,” Soledad says softly, “but you are someone who deserves all things, not just one.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“I knew, but there was this little voice in the back of my head that said I could change his mind. That he’d love me enough to choose me over…” Over his own happiness?”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny.” —Mary McLeod Bethune, educator, philanthropist, activist”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“I know those are the kinds of words that cling to the inside of your mind and play on repeat when you’re drifting off to sleep.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“Father, forgive me for I have whored.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“The world isn’t designed for women like me. Women who’d rather be single literally for years than settle for a partner not worthy of her.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“How do you trust God when this kind of shit happens?”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“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.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“You can’t earn enough. You can’t achieve enough. Ambition for things and accolades is a bottomless pit. It’s all you can eat, but you never get full.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“I want you to believe that. Every love isn’t forever. We can love people along the way. Relationships can begin and then end.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“You said being whole means acknowledging all our parts. And that there were parts of me that wanted to be held, want to be needed and loved.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“I respect what you’re doing. Hell, why do you think I want you? Besides being gorgeous, you’re brilliant and generous and principled and industrious.” This man could talk me into my own bed if I let him.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“In this game you have to be, especially as a Black man moving in these circles. I ain’t waiting for nobody to tell me I’m the shit. You better know it going in.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“I won’t be led around by my heart and my pussy with some man holding the leash.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“Sometimes people want different things more than they want each other. In the long run, it’s best they go their separate ways.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“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.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“And he skis. Skis! What I’mma do with a skiing nigga?”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“Strength is not always control. Sometimes it’s surrender.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“Gurhhhhlllll.” Yasmen fans her face. “We gotta work this out. You waited all this time and Father God sent you that? Sis, you deserve.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“I hate my inner voice sometimes. She’s such a bitch. Don’t let me get away with nothing.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“That’s everything because that means I’m good to you and you’re good to me. Being good to you means wanting what’s best for you. If there is an upper hand, baby, I don’t want it. I know I’m asking you to take a big risk, but all I can do is promise that I’ll never try to hurt you and I’ll do everything to protect you. I’ll do everything in my power to make sure you don’t regret choosing me and I’ll protect your dreams as fiercely as I chase my own.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“Yasmen: Sol, I’ll bring my drooping tits and my stretch marks. Fuck anyone who has something to say about it.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“Zere’s gaze lands on me as if she’s only now realizing I’m here. “Oh, Hen. I see you met my Maverick.” The “my” in that sentence is totally unnecessary if she’s subtly warning me off. Girl, I don’t want your man.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“I’m only now realizing that often when people say “it’s funny,” they really mean that it’s… sad. A sad reversal of fortune. To have always been the parent. And now to be…”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“Mav, I…” She blinks at tears and swallows hard. “I’ve seen this before with other people. My parents and my friends, but I wasn’t sure I’d ever find someone who accepted me just as I am and loved me no matter what. I’m not easy.” I lift her chin and meet her eyes. “Falling in love with you is the easiest thing I’ve ever done,” I tell her. “It happened before I even realized it. I just knew you were the most fascinating woman I’d ever met and I wanted to know you. I wanted us to be friends, and then I wanted us to be everything.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“This court is penalizing one of the few groups actively working to close the racial-gender inequities in business, and ultimately working to close the social and economic gaps created by this nation’s disgraceful history around race.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough