V.S. Carnes

Quotes

• “The blood dried on his good hand, he passed his palm over her hair. It curled about his wrist and sprung back into displ...”
• “There are still many souls to be won for Christ,” she answered with quiet dignity, eyes downcast—but not, he figured, in...”
• “My name, sir, is Virgilia Wessex. I am a Sunday school teacher from Sussex, England, and I have given you no leave to ad...”
• “A hand stole around her mouth, silencing her, then his lips parting her tumbled hair: “The walls have ears.”She blinked,...”
• “She wondered how a man could look into a woman’s eyes and lie so completely, so convincingly. She wondered how he could ...”
• “His head snapped sharply aside to collide with his own aching shoulder. The hulking brute he had heard referred to as Ab...”
• “The horizon was indistinguishable from the inky black, which fell upon the desert like a sorcerer’s mantle shot through ...”
• “By now, she was far from the scorch of these sands. After the ransom deal, she would be safely married in England. To As...”
• “Fate had a cruel sense of humor. It had been all his fault, anyway, whatever Mick or Gillia told him. Careless preoccupa...”
• “Caine usually woke from the recurring dream mid-air, having yet to be dashed upon the rocks, whimpering and panting like...”
• “She was a little thing, too, inciting that basic compulsion in him as a man to protect her in so hectic a place as post-...”
• “I remember every good thing about you. Every sweet and perfect thing. And nothing else.” He touched her chin, tipped it ...”
• “It was a question of insurmountable proportions. A single word that held every fear he had ever had-and every wish he ha...”
• “I stole you, among others, from the streets of God’s birthplace. I forced you to work as a slave. Imprisoned, mistreated...”
• “And what was to become of what he had taken from her? He had dashed her heart to the ground and danced on it with combat...”
• “He felt, rather than saw, her chin lift toward him. But instead of pulling her hand from his grip and turning away, she ...”
• “They were literally inches from being buried alive in this place, millions of miles from home or any sort of civilizatio...”
• “Care for her. He was unworthy of such a gift. Unworthy of her blind trust and her sparkling, slightly crooked smiles, le...”
• “He’d thought it would be the right thing to say, but she scoffed a little… and that, more than anything—more than the pr...”
• “Southern gentleman,” he said aside to him in Arabic. “Do you wish for me to continue this for you?”Caine’s temper shifte...”
• “In a land that knew only dark beauty, she was something of a hybrid no one dared touch. But the tall Arab did not appear...”
• “Remind me to thank God I don’t have a sister.”Caine eyed him critically. He was a filthy heap of blood and soot and sand...”
• “He smelled the salt on his own lips and the orange blossoms in her hair. Real ones, he could see now, tucked into the cu...”
• “No fairy tale, this. This was by no stretch of the imagination a polished fantasy. This was a searing, living force, rou...”
• “It came as naturally to him as breathing or lying, or worse. His mama had only taught her son to be cautious at all time...”
• “Are you in the habit of taking tea with anyone who approaches you in a foreign port?” He went on and snorted carelessly....”
• “She’d said she loved him. She'd put that impossible, unimaginably beautiful gift in his hands and he’d thrown it back at...”
• “Anger swirled in him, a tempest readying her strike. And like a helpless vessel caught in her fury, he felt himself dash...”
• “When silence greeted her question, she looked at Caine—for that was how he saw himself in that moment and in all the mom...”
• “I will not marry Ashton. However bound by honor to do so, I will not marry Ashton. I will not marry, ever!” “Why not?”“B...”
• “Kent had begun sleeping with his good eye open, for he knew the mark of sedition when he saw it. Even partway blinded, w...”
• “Caine was a murderer. A liar. A cad. A skulker in shadows and a heartless wretch. What sort of woman or God would love s...”
• “Kent steepled his fingers in consideration. Blood-red rubies flashed in the sunlight, like the eyes of a demon clutched ...”
• “Kas was right: a woman could destroy a man. This one could do so, simply by knowing his name. She could do so, simply wi...”
• “He heard the voice that had called to him in dreams, had saved him from the sands and from following his brother into th...”
• “He didn’t deserve compassion. Sympathy. Not even understanding. He deserved worse, far worse than he had ever been given...”
• “I’ve crossed a world of sand and tears in search of you. I love you. I’ve done nothing in my life worth more than that.”
• “Somehow, I did not finger you for a treasure-hunter.”“Oh, but I am,” without shame. “Her name is Titianni Aziz.”
• “Because you have my heart, Virgilia Wessex.” Softly, almost achingly. “Every black ounce of it. Scars and all.”
• “Oh, Lord, why was she doomed to adore a man steeped in blindness and utter stupidity?”
• “He wanted to die. He prayed for it. Through the roar in his ears, he begged for it.”
• “La mu’axsa, but I think I’ll just keep sliding down this greased pole to hell?”
• “I've crossed a world of sand and tears in search of you.”
• “She thought she loved him. She was crazy.”
• “After all, you are a hero and everything.”