Saved by the Boss Quotes

“The people who care about you won’t judge, and the people who do? You don’t care about them.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“Oh, Summer. To be twenty-seven again and dating.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“I dated an intern at the company I was CEO of,” Tristan replies. “I’m not about to judge.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“wondering if this is how it feels to fall in love with someone. To lose your footing, and plummet to that final depth, where you know you’ll never be the same person again for having had them in your life.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“He keeps his eyes on me for a long time, but I don’t look away. Watch me stay, I think. Watch me not shrink from this.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“He knows I’m an open book. Read me, I think.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“What do you do,” I whisper to him, “when the person you love refuses to love himself?”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“She should leave and never come back, if she knows what’s good for her.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“To think there’ll be a time when I won’t be able to see her, sitting right there in front of me, so beautiful it feels like my heart is being torn out of my body. The world creates beauty like this, and then takes my eyes away from me. The cruelty of it is ripping me apart.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“I’m thankful I saw you, at any rate,” he murmurs. “Before it all goes black.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“My heart aches with the need to reach out and hug him. To say that everything will be okay. I sit still instead, listening. Bearing witness to his pain. I think he needs to be listened to.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“I’m not always happy.” “I know,” he says. “But you’re always genuine.” “An open book, or so I’ve been told.” “You let people see you, Summer. That’s strength.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“Summer… your optimism is genuine. That’s the way you see the world. It’s impressive. It’s a complete fucking mystery to me how you do it, but it’s breathtaking.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“How I do what?” “How you manage to stay happy, and optimistic, and willing to see the best in everyone.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“no one talks bad to you in front of me. Not even you.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“Just like my fucking vision, Summer’s presence in my life has an expiration date. She might not realize it yet, but she will. The life she’s dreaming of can’t include me.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“I have couples to set up. Matches to make. Love to create and sparks to fly.” “Right. You have to shoot Cupid’s bow.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“Life is unfair and ephemeral and yet so heartbreakingly beautiful, and I hope he’ll see that one day, eyesight or no.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“Don’t think differently of me,” he tells me. “I don’t. If anything, I feel—” “If you’re going to say anything with the word compassion, sorry, or pity in it, don’t. Summer, I can’t bear it.” He’s walking a knife’s edge with despair, I realize. And each day is a new struggle to keep his balance.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“The man whose humor is dry and black, who is hard-working and reserved. Cynical but kind.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“I don’t understand the reason he’s holding back, but whatever it is, I’m confident it’s not related to me. Not with the way he’d kissed me last night. Like it was an art, rather than a sport. I’d felt like something to be savored.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“But I can’t stomach the idea of taking Summer to bed, sweet, trusting, fierce, funny and true-love-believing Summer, while she doesn’t know about what a wreck I’ll become… the wreck I already am on the inside.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“Her soft exhale is like music to my ears, all of her a symphony I can’t wait to listen to.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“Surrendering to her feels like putting down a weight I didn’t know I’d carried.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“Her hands lock around my neck and fit there like they were meant to be. Like she’s always been made for my arms.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“I don’t know why I’m different around you. Why I like myself more when you’re next to me.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“You’re only six years older than me,”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“Have I become such a fun-hating curmudgeon? Already?”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“Finding the one woman you want when you have nothing to give. If the universe has a sense of humor, I imagine it’s laughing at me now.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss

“Filling the contours of my life with color everywhere she goes, and rarely staying within the lines.”
― Olivia Hayle, Saved by the Boss