Still Quotes

“And when the years have passed,
and we have watched a thousand sunsets,
and we are bent,
our bodies crooked with age
ask me again.
In the twilight,
in the shadow of the life we have shared,
ask me if I love you,
and my heart will answer before my lips can part.
My love, my life,
my heart never left your hands.
Always, evermore, even after.
Still.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“Ask me when your belly is full like the moon,
and our love has stretched your body with my child,
leaving your skin, once flawless,
now silvered, traced, scarred,
I will worship you.
My eyes will never stray.
My heart will never wander,
gladly leashed to you all my days.
I am fixed on you.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“Still?” she asks with a watery smile.
“Yeah.” Always. Evermore. Even after. “Still.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“Dwell in possibility.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“I love your body because it has you in it.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“There’s something helpless about truly being in love, the kind of love they write songs about, that inspires poetry and launches ships and wreaks havoc. It leaves you slightly off balance, controlling when you mean to cherish, smothering when you mean to hold close.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“And it still isn’t enough. Anything that ended would never be enough for a love like ours. A love like ours is only satisfied by forever.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“I’ll never forget this moment when, through the abject fear and despair and exhaustion saturating her eyes, I glimpse her trust in me. It’s the greatest gift I’ve ever received.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“However imperfect she appears to some, she is ours, and we already love her deeply and will treasure any time we have with her.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“When I thought of my husband, I didn’t dream in color, I dreamt in character.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“He studies me a moment longer, and the intimacy and openness are almost too much, but I force myself not to look away. I’ve never been more vulnerable to anyone, and I’ve never trusted anyone else the way I trust Grip— with my life, with my heart.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“I will kiss him a million times in our life together and never tire of it. My lips will always cling, curious and searching. His touch is an endless thrill.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“We feel the things we need to know instead of say them. With my chest pressed to his back, forgiveness, love, understanding, and tenderness transfer noiselessly between the layers of our clothes, an emotional osmosis through blood and bone, through hurt and fear.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“But it’s such a rich white,” I say, forcing my lips to stay curved.
“Well, this is Tribeca,” Grip deadpans. “There’s bound to be a lot of rich whites.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“When we are alone, you and I, through years, through pain, my heart will answer again and again, still.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“Marlon James, you better fix her.”
It takes the rest of the day to reprogram Nina...”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“Grief handed me a heart of iron, and I rusted it with my tears, a muscle not made of flesh, not pumping blood.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“But if you don’t ride me hard enough, I’m flipping you over and tearing that ass up. Got it?”
“That sounds fair.” I nod frantically, no breath left for banter. I’m just ready to impale myself on him.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“I bet your leg has gone to sleep.”
“Not my third leg.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“Oh, I want you.” Lust roughens his voice. Love makes it soft. His gaze drops, a lazy, heated sweep over my body, a sweet searing of my skin. The look is as heavy as a stroking hand, but so gentle that I barely feel its tantalizing weight.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“Electric current spears me down the middle, landing in my core. He sucks all the oxygen from the room, and my lungs desperately push breath from my chest. He studies me under hooded lids, knowing exactly what he’s doing to me.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“What if he decides someday the one thing he really wants, really needs is the one thing I can never be?”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“Emotion tells you about love, but hard times prove it. How can you know something is great unless it’s tested? Until then, it’s just an assumption. It’s a question, but life has a way of answering.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“You ask me today if I love you, if I take you as my own to have and to hold, and my heart replies yes. Always, evermore, even after. Still. Not just today before a crowd, but when we are alone, you and I, through years, through pain, My heart will answer again and again, still.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“I withhold nothing from him. Not my body—he can have it any way he wants it. Not my heart—flung open like a door for him to walk through. Not my soul—twisting around his every time he hammers up into me, possessing me from the inside out.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“I have no pride when it comes to you, to this. I’ll chase you anywhere.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“I don’t know if it’s mine or if it’s hers, but this moment, this perfect glass-blown moment where our bodies unite and our souls intersect, this moment belongs to us.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“Life is the grand equalizer. It has a way of stripping those privileges, rendering them inconsequential.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“The music is sensuous and whispers sex before the singer delivers the first lyric.
“Prince?” I ask, surprised. I recognize the iconic voice, but not the song. “What is this?”
“Adore.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still

“I need you. You are as fundamental as the breath in my lungs; as much a part of me as the blood flowing through my body. To let you go would be to let go of life, and that is how long you'll have me. You'll have me for a lifetime.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Still