Stolen Heart Quotes

“She wasn’t a woman, she was a sign of the fucking apocalypse.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“I cursed the universe. Kick a man while he’s down, why don’t you?”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“Everything wasn’t fucking great. Everything was all fucked up.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“You want me to stop kissing you?” I asked, my breath freezing in my lungs as soon as the question was out. What if she said yes?”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“I’d been a smart kid when it came to business, not so clever about women.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“I’d spent so long seeing myself as the victim, all this time focused on what they’d stolen from me.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“Vanessa was a viper. I hadn’t kept up with my family in the past decade and a half. I did know Ford had divorced her but not without her soaking him for a fortune in alimony.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“Buttercup.” The almost-forgotten childhood endearment slid out naturally.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“Hope kissed like it was a discovery, like every press of her mouth to mine was something new.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“Surely, she could do better than a place over the sandwich shop.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“Her hands had closed over my arms as if she were holding on for dear life, her mouth moving on mine with hunger, with need, but unpracticed and uncertain.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“Sawyers knew how to work, but that was about the only good thing you could say about us. We knew shit about being a family.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“Like I usually did, I was following my gut.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“The little girl who’d made up stories of fairies under the toadstools, who’d built a drag racer out of scrap wood and an old skateboard, who’d won the science fair four years in a row and never brought home anything less than an A?”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“Obviously,” was my not so brilliant response.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“Early twenties, he could have been a twin to Sterling or Brax, all shining golden hair and vibrant blue eyes, with a slim athletic build in a perfectly-tailored suit. He would have looked like a young Greek God if not for the petulant sneer on his face.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“I loved this woman with every fucking inch of my heart. With every cell in my body. I didn’t care if she wanted to work with me, or somewhere else, or quit to raise our kids, or do all the above. As long as she was with me and she was happy, I’d have everything I wanted in life.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“Little did you know. You getting me naked was my to-do list.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“Sometimes the past is best left behind. And sometimes you need to look back and remember what there is worth saving.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“Lady Estelle Ophelia Sawyer. She’d traveled to North Carolina after a whirlwind romance with my great-great-grandfather, William Reginald Sawyer. He’d built Heartstone Manor for Lady Estelle, determined to give her a home worthy of her sacrifice in leaving England and her family for the wilds of America.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“Love was a trap and a lie. What I had with Hope wasn’t some mushy sentiment, it was blood and bone. It was history and loyalty. I owed her more than lies about love. I wanted to give her more than words. I wanted to give her everything.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“Ford and I had once been two peas in a pod, almost identical in looks except for his dark hair to my blond.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“Heartstone’s entry hall was palatial. Two stories high, big enough to fit my apartment a few times over, it was paneled in dark-stained oak from floor to ceiling, an elaborate crystal chandelier hanging in the center.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“Hope was a liar who’d screwed me over. Hope was the reason I’d been kicked out of my childhood home in the first place.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“I don’t look back, I look forward.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“I’d been raised to take the helm, groomed to follow in my father’s footsteps, but I’d walked away.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“I’d walked away from Sawyers Bend, turned my back on my family after they’d betrayed me in the worst way.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“My father was dead. I hadn’t seen him in fifteen years. I’d hated him far longer than that.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“My father was famous for changing his will. He used that thing like a weapon, setting my siblings and me against one another in a constant play for dominance.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart

“No good could come of Hope Daniels walking back into my life.”
― Ivy Layne, Stolen Heart