Quotes from Violet Winspear

but somehow that was always his effect on a woman, to throw into relief her femininity and basic response to a dominant personality. It was infuriating, of course, to be so female as to derive pleasure out of submittance to a male, but she was too weak right now to put up any fight against her own treacherous instincts.

Sunshine merely settles on the skin, it doesn't penetrate, or so I've found, he murmured cynically.

Vanessa was pondering the Spanish insistence on love. Did the Latin male consider it was all women were born for, to feel and give love; to devote all their life and energy to it?

You shouldn't do this — you shouldn't! was all she found breath to say. He laughed softly, deeply. I'm doing it, though. Want me to stop? Yes Little liar! He took her lips then and Fay was lost. Like a small moth she fluttered in the dark flame of him and it mattered not that destruction might lie beyond the ecstasy he offered now.

Les jeunes rêvent, souffrent et espèrent. Les meilleurs artistes sont le plus souvent des êtres jeunes qui sont plutôt malheureux en amour qu'heureux. L'amour est la racine de tout... on ne peut pas y échapper.

What first kiss holds passion? It is a question seeking an answer.

Seriez-vous un iceberg ? On m'a dit beaucoup de mal des Anglaises, mais je vous préviens ! Notre soleil ne va pas tarder à vous faire fondre, d'autant plus qu'il s'allie à notre musique et à notre vin.

It's an invasion a-and I resent It.' 'A strange remark from a woman,' there was a caustic sting in his voice. 'It is my experience that your sex likes this invasion, as you call it. It is a subtle intrusion they can allow without risking their reputations.

Experience could not be acquired from the innocent, and in a way it is a schooling for the innocence we eventually acquire in a wife. If you have not known the devil you can never appreciate an angel.

There had to come a moment when we were both undermined by the fact that he is a man, and when it came I surrendered to him body and soul. I wanted to. And it was heaven.

Can it be that distance makes the heart feel fonder, and scatters roses where nettles really grow?

The real aim of romance is to provide escape and entertainment.

Love without a little fighting is like potatoes without salt.

It isn't love if it isn't everything.

My passionate puritan!

There isn't anything very tender about being in love...it's a cruel and clamouring hunger.

At the kernel of every promise, there is always a little doubt, like a fragment of shell that clings to the broken nut.

Women, mysterious, vulnerable, enticing and full of mixed up loves and hates,' he drawled. 'Frail reeds that often survive a storm while male oaks go crashing . . . must I really number you among them just yet, pixie? Can't I go on thinking of you as a charming infant?

These days, young men seemed to flirt with love rather than burn with it.

Desire comes easy to a man, but it soon flickers out if love doesn't light the flame.

Suddenly all the loneliness was gone and she could surrender herself, her life, all her future, into the keeping of this man…not quite an angel, but not altogether a devil.

I work the terraces, Miss Jones. I bring forth the champagne and the wine. I ensure that the chateau remains a perfect example of French architecture. I pay the wages of the workers. I give the orders and flourish the phantom whip, but I am only the caretaker of Satancourt and its cellar.

What I am is my own business.' 'Not any more.' He let his voice sink down meaningfully on the words. 'You are now my business — mine to control just as I fancy.

Love and infatuation are like time and tide. One is forever, the other comes and goes.