Ivy Layne > Quotes

“Fate could be a bitch, but if I were lucky, she loved me today.”
― Ivy Layne, The Billionaire's Secret Heart

“Pulling me closer, he said, "I know it's crazy, and completely inappropriate, but I've been wanting to do this since you walked in the door.”
― Ivy Layne, The Billionaire's Secret Heart

“If you're too embarrassed to tell the people you love about something you're doing, either you're doing wrong, or you need more confidence in your choices.”
― Ivy Layne, The Billionaire's Pet

“We rounded the corner to the door of the building, and I came to a dead stop. Lounging on a bench beside the main entry to the Psychology building was Holden.”
― Ivy Layne, The Billionaire's Secret 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

“No good could come of Hope Daniels walking back into my life.”
― 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

“I'd never met a woman who made my soul go still, just so I could soak in everything she was. I'd never met a woman I simply wanted to be near.”
― Ivy Layne, The Counterfeit Billionaire

“Ignoring the bad stuff doesn't make you stronger. It just leaves you with weak spots you can't see until it's too late.”
― Ivy Layne, Unraveled

“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

“Read”
― Ivy Layne, Undone

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

“dropped”
― Ivy Layne, Unraveled

“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

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

“I never felt truly alive sitting behind a desk.”
― 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

“Little did you know. You getting me naked was my to-do list.”
― 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

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

“Did I mention that's what he was driving? A bike. No, not a motorcycle. I've never ridden that kind of bike,”
― Ivy Layne, The Billionaire's Secret Heart

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― Ivy Layne, The Billionaire's Secret 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

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

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

“I want you to be mine," I said. "Not here and there. Not for secret moments of time. For always. I want to wake up with you in the morning and go to bed with you at night. I want to argue with you and laugh with you. Cook dinner with you and dance with you. I want everything. And I want it with you.”
― Ivy Layne, Unraveled

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