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The Kingmaker (All the King's Men #1) QUOTES

The Kingmaker (All the King's Men #1) QUOTES

1 " On rare occasion, you come across someone who just gets you, and you don't have to figure out your place. Wherever you are is okay. "

― Kennedy Ryan , The Kingmaker (All the King's Men #1)

2 " If a kiss has a color, this one is the muted shades of the sky overhead, a ménage à trois of midnight and indigo and moonshine silver. If a kiss has a sound, this one is the concert of our breaths and sighs and moans. If a kiss has a taste, it tastes like this. Hunger flavored with yearning and spiced with desperation. "

― Kennedy Ryan , The Kingmaker (All the King's Men #1)

3 " My mother's story has no end. Her life was interrupted mid-sentence -a dangling participle. An infinite etcetera of dots, but no period. "

― Kennedy Ryan , The Kingmaker (All the King's Men #1)

4 " I know it’s unreasonable because I met her no more than an hour ago. We’ve had one conversation. Some people leave an impression. Lennix Moon Hunter has left more than an impression. She’s left her mark on me. And it’s shaped like a star. "

― Kennedy Ryan , The Kingmaker (All the King's Men #1)

5 " My mother was my first country. The first place I ever lived.” – “lands” by Nayyirah Waheed, Poet & Activist "

― Kennedy Ryan , The Kingmaker (All the King's Men #1)

6 " Dissent is the highest form of patriotism,” I quote. “I love this country too much to settle for the lies written in our history books. I love the constitution too much not to hold the men who wrote it accountable for the truth of its principles. "

― Kennedy Ryan , The Kingmaker (All the King's Men #1)

7 " Do what you need to do. Change your world,” he says softly, his eyes connected to mine so intensely there’s no hope of looking away. “I have to go make my world, but when the time is right, I’ll be back for you. "

― Kennedy Ryan , The Kingmaker (All the King's Men #1)

8 " I didn’t have words that night for what I felt when he initiated me not just into sex, but into this world that is just ours. Just our two bodies, sun and moon, just our souls, earth and water. We are the sky and the sea, and the horizon is where our hearts meet. Every part of that world is made by and from and for just us two. "

― Kennedy Ryan , The Kingmaker (All the King's Men #1)

9 " In what world could you possibly think I would belong to you?”
“In the one we make together. "

― Kennedy Ryan , The Kingmaker (All the King's Men #1)

10 " My mother was my first country. The first place I ever lived. "

― Kennedy Ryan , The Kingmaker (All the King's Men #1)

11 " I’m still only thirteen years old, but in the four days of my Sunrise Dance, the rite of passage that carried me from girl to woman, it feels like I’ve lived a lifetime. "

― Kennedy Ryan , The Kingmaker (All the King's Men #1)

12 " I think my greatest fear is actually hurting one of them with my choices. "

― Kennedy Ryan , The Kingmaker (All the King's Men #1)

13 " should have made Mama take a dozen more pictures. I should have given her a thousand kisses. I should have slept at her feet. I would have if I’d known I’d never see her again. "

― Kennedy Ryan , The Kingmaker (All the King's Men #1)

14 " A riot is the language of the unheard.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "

― Kennedy Ryan , The Kingmaker (All the King's Men #1)

15 " Besides, it’s the dreamers, the inventors and entrepreneurs who change the world the most. Gutenberg, Edison, Stephenson, Jobs—something about the present wasn’t good enough, so they made the future.” I almost choke on a jaded chuckle. “What do politicians make? They make war. They make profit off the misfortune of others. They make mistakes they won’t take responsibility for and decisions they never have to feel the impact of. No, thank you. Not for me. "

― Kennedy Ryan , The Kingmaker (All the King's Men #1)

16 " We were the last tribe to surrender. We have warrior in our blood.”
“What do you mean?” Berkeley asks.
“Geronimo was the last Indian warrior to formally surrender to the U.S. Government,” I tell him. “He was Apache.”
“Wow,” Berkeley says. “I didn’t know that. "

― Kennedy Ryan , The Kingmaker (All the King's Men #1)

17 " I’m the kid so often trapped between worlds, split in two and finding my place. On the rare occasion you come across someone who just gets you, and you don’t have to figure out your place. Wherever you are is okay.
I think he could be a ‘wherever you are’ person. "

― Kennedy Ryan , The Kingmaker (All the King's Men #1)

18 " I don’t give up on seemingly lost causes. When I want something – really want something – I’ll do whatever I have to until I have it. "

― Kennedy Ryan , The Kingmaker (All the King's Men #1)

19 " The harder I have to work for something… the harder I take it. "

― Kennedy Ryan , The Kingmaker (All the King's Men #1)