The CEO Quotes

“Money can’t buy love or trust or safety.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“It would have been impossible to choose between these two men, but sometimes love doesn’t give you a choice. The heart has its own balance sheet. It makes its own calculations. I’m the last person to find out what it decides.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“Sometimes a woman has to face a wrecking ball coming toward her with steady eyes. She knows what’s coming.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“Money has the loudest voice of all.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“There’s survival, something every woman has had to look in the face. And sometimes, sometimes we walk into a fight we know we’re going to lose.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“I’m not sure who I am if I’m not the girl hopelessly in love with Christopher Bardot.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“Love is outside our control, but we aren’t defined by love. We’re defined by our choices. Our actions. By the willingness to do what’s right even when it’s hard.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“That’s the kind of perversity that comes from having parents that loved and hated each other. From being the rope they tugged back and forth for almost two decades, leaving me frayed at both edges.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“what beautiful things does money not destroy? It touches everything with its dirty hands, marking us, leaving us weaker than before.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“Love is a terrible monster. It seduces you like a siren, pulling you closer even though you know you’re going to be smashed to bits against the rocks.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“How does he do this to me? Make me vicious. As if something dangerous inside him calls to me.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“That’s what men know how to do: make money and lie to women.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“Really, for someone who is famous for being able to read women, you completely missed this one.” “We never have perspective about the people closest to us,”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“The heart is fickle. It doesn’t listen to reason.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“No one has to save me.” “Save you? No, sugar. I want to peel that sexy little dress away from your body and make love to you so hard and so long you’re going to beg. You can’t take anymore, that’s what you’ll say, and if I were a better man, one who wanted to protect you and keep you in a safe little box, I would stop. Except I won’t be done with you for a long time.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“Did I give you the impression that I was a gentleman? My apologies.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“Nothing is so cold and so calculating as money in a void where love and hope had been. I don’t want his billions of dollars, or however much his fortune amounts to. I never did.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“Nothing is so cold and so calculating as money in a void where love and hope had been. I don’t want his billions of dollars, or however much his fortune amounts to. I never”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“I should have known that perfection is only ever an illusion. A shine you put on things that are too broken to ever be fixed.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“learned early not to trust men or money. Both of them have a way of disappearing when you need them most.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“Because that’s something women are good at: loving men we shouldn’t.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“Like the men in my life, money is only temporary. And if I never want either of them, I won’t be disappointed when they’re gone.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“When you’re forever held taut from both ends, the most scary thing is to be let go.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“He had been a little drunk himself. Not enough to play volleyball with the drinkware, but enough that his eyes had gleamed with a distant sadness. He pulled me close, and I nestled against him the way I had as a little girl, breathing in the cedar-salt scent of him. “I love your mother,” he said then, present tense. He loves her.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest

“Salt hits my tongue before the driver opens the door, splashing the sleek leather interior of the limo with watercolor light. This dock homes the most expensive boats in Boston, outfitting them with caviar and champagne before they set sail.”
― Skye Warren, Survival of the Richest