Top 280 Kate Stewart Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “How did I not see this? How could I not have seen this incredible man for what he is? In a matter of life-altering hours, Theo has just become the most irresistible man I’ve ever known. If I’m completely honest, I’ve been falling for him, in pieces, since the night we met.”

— Kate Stewart

152. “I’m keeping my love story, not because it included both martyr and sacrifice, or because it’s the story I wanted, it’s because I would never rewrite it. And I would live it all over again just for the chance to sing with him.”

— Kate Stewart

153. “Marriage requires falling in love many times with the same person.”

— Kate Stewart

154. “It’s a high I’d almost forgotten about, a high that’s more addictive to me than any drug could ever be. My heart has some scar tissue, but it beats steady, constantly letting me know that playing his game leaves it vulnerable, and somewhere in the back of my mind, I hear the warning. For now, I’m playing blissfully ignorant, all too ready for another hit.”

— Kate Stewart

155. “I wasn’t an outcast in school, I just was the one everyone waved to while walking down the hall before they reached someone more important.”

— Kate Stewart

156. “Sometimes what’s meant to be isn’t written in the stars, instead it’s a journey on the path less travelled without a map of guidance, without certainty.”

— Kate Stewart

157. “Clearly, cider gives me a drunken British pirate accent when I’ve had too much of it, or I’ve been watching too much BBC.”

— Kate Stewart

158. “You keep trying to give yourself, your heart, your allegiance away to anyone who will have it for reasons you can’t understand, but it’s so painfully clear.”

— Kate Stewart

159. “It was a year. Just one year. But it changed everything for me.”

— Kate Stewart

160. “Satisfied with the look I plan to neuter Easton Crowne in, I grab the small clutch which matches the red soles of my heels before tucking in my phone and travel wallet.”

— Kate Stewart

161. “What appears to be bold black feather tips peak along the side of his neck.”

— Kate Stewart

162. “We’re polar opposites in some ways. I’m too country, and he’s a whole lot of everything else. We shouldn’t fit, but we do, and our fit is nothing short of spectacular.”

— Kate Stewart

163. “We’re living in a land of fiction, and it’s up to me to decipher the truths from the lies. He’s imploding. I just hope I can save him before the lies swallow us both whole.”

— Kate Stewart

164. “I spent the first few days with his earbuds in, immersed in sensory overload. I finally had to tuck them away in my desk, having decided anyone who listens to music while emotionally compromised is a masochist. It’s utter agony knowing my mind now associates certain songs with a man forever trapped in a place and time I don’t want to outlive.”

— Kate Stewart

165. “Those boys, pretty as they are, I think might have the devil inside them.”

— Kate Stewart

166. “Just remember when you’re yelling, you’re hurt. And whoever hurt you probably loves you just as much.”

— Kate Stewart

167. “He didn’t show up on a white horse declaring that she hops on before he gallops away. No, this prince got off his horse, fell on his ass, and stumbled in the mud with her until she could mount her own stallion. And then, in one last act of bravery, he gently trotted beside her into the unknown.”

— Kate Stewart

168. “She’s a second look kind of girl. The first look at her is for simple appreciation for the stunner she is. The second look is a realization of what an idiot you were for not looking longer the first time around.”

— Kate Stewart

169. “For once in my life, I’m okay with letting love lose.”

— Kate Stewart

170. “With sleeves rolled up a few inches on his forearms, it’s easy to surmise both arms are covered in ink. What appears to be bold black feather tips peak along the side of his neck. He’s the gasp-worthy blond in contrast to Easton’s breath-stealing tall, dark, and strikingly handsome.”

— Kate Stewart

171. “Serena has no idea how lucky she is to have someone willing to brave the cold to ensure she’s warm – to open the impossible pickle jar, carry the bulk of the heavy load. Little things men do to care for their women. Things that are taken for granted over time by those in a relationship.”

— Kate Stewart

172. “I think I’m falling in love with the king of nothing.”

— Kate Stewart

173. “That’s the truth,” I add, “people don’t want the brutal truth in love stories anymore, but that, there,” I gesture at the screen, “is the brutal, ugly truth.”

— Kate Stewart

174. “I hate that I love the way he kisses me. It’s possession and now bordering on obsession, and it’s not what I’m supposed to feel.”

— Kate Stewart

175. “Now time?” “It’s the only measure of time that matters. Time itself is just an invisible line, a measure people made up, right? You know that. And while it’s good for reference, it’s also a major stress trigger, because you’re letting it control you.”

— Kate Stewart

176. “I hadn’t realized just how much of rocks my heroes were when it came to friends and family, until I left. I wanted to be that rock for those I cared the most for. And a good rock rarely becomes a rolling stone.”

— Kate Stewart

177. “Loving her has ruined me, wounded me beyond comprehension. Loving her has also changed my perception of what matters, of gravity, of my own personal truth, and for better or worse, aided in creating the man I’ve become.”

— Kate Stewart

178. “I look over to him to see his gaze fixed on my hair just as he reaches up and rubs one of my curls between his fingers. “I like it like this.” “Clean?” “Natural,” he says, taking his coffee as a tinge of exhilaration shoots up my spine. “You can’t be serious.” “I am.”

— Kate Stewart

179. “He stares down at me, gasping out his release, unmistakable terror in his eyes. And I’m thankful for it. I’m thankful for every vulnerable second of it because I see the recognition when he realizes what I already know. He didn’t want to feel anything, and instead, he felt everything. We’ve just ruined ourselves with our hate for the other.”

— Kate Stewart

180. “In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed – But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. – A Dream, Edgar Allen Poe.”

— Kate Stewart

181. “With every slow thrust of his tongue, every possessive push of his hips, he damns us, the confession in his eyes narrating our story, our ill-fated fortune as star-crossed fools, sharing a merciless love neither of us can ever deny, but can never keep.”

— Kate Stewart

182. “I didn’t know where you got the dress, so I couldn’t replace it. But the negligee felt like you. Soft,” he presses a kiss below my ear, “sensual,” and another, “delicate,” he pulls back to weigh my reaction before licking along my bottom lip, “beautiful.”

— Kate Stewart

183. “Boo, listen. You can’t go beating up everyone that pisses you off. Use your words, I promise you they are much better weapons. But be careful with them because bruises heal.”

— Kate Stewart

184. “Natalie,” he murmurs, pulling my chin by his fingers back toward him. “I really just want to talk to you, so please don’t force me to play dirty because I have time to kill between gigs, and if you don’t get,” he bites his lip, “your perfect ass in my van, I’m going to bend you over Monday morning and bite it right in front of your daddy. Bet.”

— Kate Stewart

185. “Intelligent men don’t let life-changing women pass them by without trying to grasp onto them with both hands.”

— Kate Stewart

186. “We don’t have to be friends, Easton, and I may grill you for the truth, but I can promise you that I won’t sacrifice any part of you for them.”

— Kate Stewart

187. “No matter how mad you make each other, you will always be brothers.”

— Kate Stewart

188. “That’s the novelty of fiction versus reality. You can’t re-live your own love story because, by the time you’ve realized you’re living it, it’s over. At least that was the case for me.”

— Kate Stewart

189. “It’s fear that’s going to keep us angry, keep us confused, keep us penniless.”

— Kate Stewart

190. “Time has told me it only takes seconds to be made a fool.”

— Kate Stewart

191. “You finally get it together enough to get over them – live without them – and bam, they show up on your doorstep expecting you to feel the same way. My momma always said, ‘Don’t ever count on a man to realize his wrongs on your emotional timeline ’cause men always take way longer to come around and deal with their feelings. They’re emotionally stunted.”

— Kate Stewart

192. “The only thing that could trump you today, Abbie, is you tomorrow. And I don’t want to be without you tomorrow.”

— Kate Stewart

193. “But do yourself a favor, never research your heroes.” “Why?” He tips his beer. “Because you’ll find out they’re human.”

— Kate Stewart

194. “You’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever laid eyes on, Cecelia, especially when you come apart for me.”

— Kate Stewart

195. “He wants me to read, with him, in his bed. And what better way to pass a day in stormy weather than curling up with a gorgeous man and getting lost in the words.”

— Kate Stewart

196. “That’s the thing about intimacy and truly knowing the person you’re with. They always know when something’s off, no matter how casually you try to sweep your unease away. They know. It’s their job, because in the song of your life, they are the ones listening. It’s when they stop that you need to worry. He’d listened to mine. He knew when a beat was missing, or a note was forgotten. He’d memorized my song, and I was his favorite.”

— Kate Stewart

197. “There’s no better storyteller, no better reflection of my worth than in the eyes of the woman who shared in my journey and helped me navigate my way through the worst of it.”

— Kate Stewart

198. “You and Dante, you redefined my dreams. My everything is yours.”

— Kate Stewart

199. “I didn’t heed a single warning. I went in a willing captive. I let love rule and ruin me. I played my part, eyes wide open, tempting fate until it delivered.”

— Kate Stewart

200. “And while his fingers explored, his eyes stayed on mine, filling the silence, and in them I saw the piece of me that he took.”

— Kate Stewart