Hook Shot Quotes

“Sometimes we hold so tightly to the hurt from the past that we miss the happiness ahead,”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“Give yourself permission to let it hurt, but allow yourself permission to let it heal.” Nikki Rowe, Once a Girl, Now a Woman”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“My beloved is mine and I am his. --Song of Solomon 2:16”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“I have found the one whom my soul loves. --Song of Solomon 3:4”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“Wild women are an unexplainable spark of life. They ooze freedom and seek awareness, they belong to nobody but themselves . . . she'll allow you into her chaos, but she'll also show you her magic.”—Nikki Rowe, Once a Girl, Now a Woman”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“It’s us admitting to the universe we don’t have all the answers. Too often religion says yes, I do have all the answers, and if you don’t like them, you can’t sit at my table. So we have all these tables. Too many tables, and not enough love.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“Love is as strong as death.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“There is no place, no spot on the continuum of time that could have hidden this man from me.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“What if she gave me to you?” I bend to whisper over her lips. “What if I’m your gris gris now?”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“There is no one else but you, my friend, my equal.” --Song of Solomon 5:2”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“No one has to tell a queen to wear her crown.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“He's a castle with secret tunnels and abandoned dungeons and heavy locked doors.

And I'm his skeleton key.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“But religion, as it’s tossed around now, has so little compassion. So little humanity, and faith is first human.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“I lift my chin, tighten my thighs at his hips, and roll again. Clench tighter, introducing his cock to its new mistress. I will possess this warrior under me. The man they call Gladiator taken captive by a girl half his size and a decade younger. I'm a girl he could crush, but everything in the way he looks at me says cherish. Says treasure. Says protect.

Says I'm his, too.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“Our eyes hold and our gris-gris rings lock together like our lives, our destinies, have remained entwined. It could be my imagination, but as she bears down and squeezes my hand for one final agonizing push, I feel that power surge the doctor mentioned. The power in our veins passed between two little girls in the Lower Ninth. We held it in a field of rotting cane, even when we were torn apart. It flows between us now through years and heartache and unconditional love. The power of an unbroken line. We are the magic.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“Children and bored adults need to be entertained. Grown men living with purpose require time and quiet and energy.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“That, my beautiful girl,” she’d said, smiling, “is your crown. Your pride. Your self-esteem. The glory of knowing who you are, and that it’s enough. No one has to tell a queen to wear her crown.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“I’m falling for her. And if I’m keeping it one hundred, at least with myself, I’m probably already in the past tense on that score. I’ve fallen for her.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“He tells me in the way he knows melts me into a puddle—with a song.
“You have stolen my heart with one look of your eyes.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“I have found the one whom my soul loves,” he quotes.

More tears rain over my cheeks; a release years overdue. I weep for every time I’ve felt unloved, unwanted, unnecessary, and imperfect. It’s all there in the look he settles on me. To him, I’m more than enough. I’m all that he wants.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“Let me see your face. Let me hear your voice for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“My beloved is mine and I am his,” I quote the song over a salty trail of tears, brokenly, truthfully. “Kenan, I’m yours.” He swells and hardens inside me at the passionate words I pour over him like oil anointing the head of a king.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“You have stolen my heart with one look of your eyes.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“True faith is about relationship.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“Nothing against fake lashes. I just don’t like it when the woman blinking them is fake, too.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“But you have one more time to put your finger in my face and step to me.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“Does MiMi see Iris sitting beside me with her light skin and long, silky, “good” hair? She’s the one people usually notice, not me.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“Lawd, don’t fail me now.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“Doing what’s right sometimes breaks our hearts. Knowing it’s right doesn’t make it hurt any less.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot

“No, but I think faith, real faith, requires bravery. With every prayer, we risk heartbreak.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Hook Shot