Children were vulnerable—helpless hostages to fate, their emotions so tender that a parent could with the smallest sentence, the briefest gesture, accidentally scar them. He did not want the burden of...
For other women that kind of intimacy—the physical, mental and emotional closeness to a man, a lover—was something they took for granted. But she would never travel through life with a man she loved a...
She hated Jourdan as she had never hated anyone in her life before. She tried to move away, but he wouldn't let her, his face a white mask of fury above her, and she realised that she had voiced her t...
You are the wheel on which my life turns, Giselle, the heart of everything I do. I promise you that somehow we will find a way to set you free from your fear.
Giselle had woken up once already, to find that she was pinned to the bed by the weight of Saul‘s leg lying across her lower body and his arm holding her against his side. It was a welcome imprisonmen...
Our strong sun darkens the colour of your skin to the colour of ours, but it cannot change what lies underneath.
It was her nature...her weakness, that for her loving another human being must always have this intensity...this absoluteness.
Your absence, but with my cousin in such very poor health still, I feel I cannot leave her, so…’ The old
All you have to do is circulate and listen. If you know what they’re talking about, join in. If you don’t know what they’re talking about, then ask questions,’ he relayed as if it was really that simp...
At last you realise that a man is not an equal, but an alien force, bent on destruction when he is aroused to anger.
Emerald
You are as timid as the gazelle that grazes by the oases, he mocked softly. Your eyes are those of a timid, hunted creature. Where is your bravery now, daughter of Hassan? Am I not only a man - only f...
Only the weak blame their past for the faults they find in their present; the strong acknowledge the effects of their past and then move on from it. We are all free to choose whether we will be weak o...
To his mother’s overprotective concern for him. Normally she would have dismissed him without a thought, but
Beware! In every man there lurks the falcon; a streak of ruthlessness and thirst for power.
Freedom is a state of mind, mignonne,' he said against her hair. 'My ancestor found it in this room, studying the constellations, even though physically he was a prisoner of his own infirmity. Other m...