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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Black Americans are not asking for things we have not earned. We are expecting a stake in something we helped build. Centuries of systemic inequities have tilted the playing field in such a way that without intention, marginalized people here in the US—Black people here—often don’t experience true equality without legal and social interventions seeking to close the gaps created by years of injustice.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“More than once during my tenure at UNC-CH, I’d met assumptions that I was there “on quota” or had somehow taken the place of a qualified white student because of affirmative action. I often discovered that I was as qualified, if not more so, than others, as were so many of my fellow Black students. I’m struck by the irony of people assuming we are not qualified to be in certain spaces when we often are more prepared and outperform expectations because we know we have to if we want even a fraction of the opportunities some may take for granted. It should be noted that so-called legacy policies affording the children of alumni admissions advantages were not addressed in the SFFA v. University of North Carolina case, but only those perceived advantages for marginalized students.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“I’ve watched my mother survive nearly everyone she loved throughout her life until now there are so few left. When I couldn’t be there, her sister was. Her church was. Her neighbors were because she’d extended herself all her life, not just to me, her child, but to everyone around her, and they wanted to extend themselves to her.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“I became jaded with men early on. Cheating on me in high school and college. Leaving when it became clear I refused to compromise my desires for their own. They showed me over and over again that most of them couldn’t be trusted or relied on,”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“Men do it all the time and we don’t think twice about it. Our wives stay home, keep our kids, hold down the house, and we’re not considered selfish. It’s expected.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“lexicography of human emotion for how it feels to lose the love of your life? It’s articulated in wails and tears”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“Maybe I’d subconsciously resigned myself to a life alone”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“I want my love to be the most extravagant gift I ever give you,” he whispers”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“Look at God. He may not come when you want Him”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“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.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“Memory is often imperfect”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough