Grip Quotes

“Don’t you feel how connected we are?” I ask. “If I break your heart, I break mine.” A sweet smile spreads over her lips and she nods.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“He’s dictating my heartbeat, governing my pulse, holding my next breath cupped in his hands.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“I come here with my heart bleeding on my sleeve, and it's still not enough for him. He needs me to cut it out and hand it to him in chunks of flesh and blood.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“But we are sometimes in the most danger when we let our guards down, when we let peace deceive us and trick us into forgetting.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“We splinter into a thousand pieces in her kitchen, becoming more together than we were apart. More than we were alone. With whispered promises and words of love, we exchange hearts.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“Dude had serious game.” Grip laughs. “No one writes about love and sex and passion like Neruda.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“Every time I’m near her I want to pour accelerant all over my anger so it burns us both to ash.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“If you’ve heard shots as many times as we have, if you live with it, you know the sound a gun makes when it’s fired is a moan. The moan of a mother, a father, a daughter, or son losing someone they love.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“I warned you that I'm not like other girls. I don't have those limits. I'd do anything for you. It sounds romantic until it crosses your lines, huh? Until it goes too far.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“What color are you?” he repeats, his eyes never leaving my face. “You, Bristol, are a freaking prism.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“In the words of that great comedic philosopher Kevin Hart, “We gon’ learn today!”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“With whispered promises and words of love, we exchange hearts.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“My waters rise, and like a river bursting free of its banks, I overflow.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

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

“I may not want a relationship, but I’m not blind or dead south of the waist. My heart, though, last time I checked, was north of my belt. I don’t let anyone near that thing.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“his lips start soft, brushing mine like wings in sweet sweeps, coaxing me open and delving into me.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“Just because we’re sleeping together doesn’t mean you can objectify me.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“You take everything to another level,” I say softly into the mic, unable to look away from the promise of storm in her cloud-gray eyes. “You’re the hardest working, most committed person I know. Your passion for my work has been evident since the day we met. Tonight wouldn’t be tonight without you.”
“Thank you,” she mouths, blinking rapidly and biting her lip.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“Ezra’s been a mentor of sorts to me over the years.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“She doesn't deserve you, she whispers.

But she has me.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“Things changed for me, Grip, she whispers. I love you.

I told you not to do that, Qwest. You know I don't feel that way.

You also know the heart doesn't always do what we tell it to.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“How he got close enough to break my heart so quickly, I'm not sure, but I know it is not whole. Maybe I fell for the possibility of him. The idea that there was actually someone out there who saw me, flaws and all, and would accept me. "Got me".”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“He looked at me that day the way he’s looking at me now, as if I were some new mystery he wanted to lose himself in solving.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“We can’t give up on each other.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip

“A scarlet sash cords her waist, and her bright red heels scream “fuck me.” But it’s Bristol, so they could whisper it, and I’d still hear.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Grip