Flow Quotes

“I like the color of smart, the shade of funny, and sexy is my favorite hue.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“We both gave each other space to be misunderstood, because we really wanted to understand.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“We just tiptoe around things, afraid we’ll offend or look ignorant, be misunderstood. Honesty is a risk few are willing to take.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“So what color am I then?” I ask before thinking better of it. He’ll probably just say I’m white, obviously. “What color are you?” he repeats, his eyes never leaving my face. “You, Bristol, are a freaking prism.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“She’s something rare—smart, classy, gorgeous, funny, opinionated, and under it all, where she tries to hide it, kind. And burrowed beneath all of that, vulnerable. She isn’t the kind of girl you mess over.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“Art, specifically music, is a living thing,” he says. “It isn’t just absorbed by the people who hear it, but it absorbs them.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“When other people are as outraged and as curious about those problems as black people are,” he says. “Then maybe we can solve them together.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“I look at her, cataloging her features one by one and realizing the most fascinating thing about this girl isn’t visible to the naked eye.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“She looks like me,” he says. “I told you we’re twins. Lemme check the Cloud for a picture.” Did”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“Her kiss woos me in the water. Her fingers on my skin are poetry. Her lips, prose. The rhythm of her heart against mine, iambic. Every touch, eloquence.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“Let’s get some outrage over people of color getting longer sentences for the same crimes other people commit.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“But I want to hear the same dismay and curiosity,” he continues, his smile leveling out. “About the issues that are actually eroding our communities. Let’s ask why black men are six percent of the general population and nearly forty percent of the prison population.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“You’re not asking the wrong question. Is it the most important question, though?”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“I guess to me, we have enough that divides us and makes us misunderstand each other. Do we really need one more thing we can’t agree on?”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“What should be foreign feels familiar.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“We don’t “emancipate” where I come from. Nah. We keep shit simple and just never come home.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“You’ll find I have definite ideas about everything.” I chuckle because it’s true. “Even things I know nothing about.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“Again, my heart is a scale out of balance, with my end taking all the weight.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“The inches between our lips disappear. At the first brush of his mouth on mine, I know this kiss will never end. It will live on in my memory for the rest of my life.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“The rest of the night, we stayed with the group, but a quiet, untraceable intimacy linked us. We played silly games and won stupid prizes. She won me a black plastic watch. I won her a whistle. We got lost together in the fun house, and I pressed her against a wavy mirror. Even distorted, our shapes were perfect together.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“If the one they offer you isn’t enough, make your own.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“No, she isn’t the kind of girl you mess over. A guy needs to be very sure he wants her, and just her, before he makes a move. Yeah. A guy would have to be very sure.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“Now, I fear that I care too much about people who don’t give a damn.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“I learned early on that people aren’t careful with your emotions. They’re too self-involved to consider how their actions affect others.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“In conversations like these, before we say our words, they’re ammunition. After we’ve said them, they’re smoking bullets. There seems to be no middle ground and too little common ground for dialogue to be productive. We just tiptoe around things, afraid we’ll offend or look ignorant, be misunderstood. Honesty is a risk few are willing to take.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“I never understood the big deal with high cheekbones. I mean, they’re cheekbones, not tits. You can’t motorboat cheekbones, but now I get it. Her face makes me get it.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“And the rack. The leather lovingly cups the just-right handful of her breasts. Narrow waist and nice ass. She’s not as thick as the chicks I usually pull, but my eyes involuntarily scroll back up her slim curves, seeking the face that goes with this body.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“That guard I forgot about and dropped all week falls back into place over my heart just in time. “We don’t cry in front of strangers.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“At the top of the world, so close we could almost touch the sky and with only the stars watching, I found out what a kiss should be.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“Black skinny jeans cling to long, lean legs that start at Monday and stretch all the way through next week.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow