Emily Windsor > Quotes

“Bad governess,” he growled, tumbling her backwards to the daybed, lips and hands all over her, peeling off straps and coating her bared skin with bites and kisses.”
― Emily Windsor, A Governess Should Never... Tempt a Prizefighter

“If one finds pleasure in reading a song sheet, then why naysay them? It should not matter what words bring you joy – be they Shakespeare, pig breeding, biblical or romance – but the fact they do bring joy to the beholder. On occasion, words are the sole pleasure to be found within this oft chaotic world.”
― Emily Windsor, A Governess Should Never... Tempt a Prizefighter

“The best way to subdue malevolence, she had found, was to smile at it. People found it utterly confounding”
― Emily Windsor, An Earl in Wolf's Clothing

“It didn't matter the volume of the music playing in her world, the noise in her head would always slip in its own horrifying tempo.”
― Emily Windsor

“What she did realise was that if she waited out here in the cold much longer, Mr Hawkins would not have a governess to house but a body to bury.”
― Emily Windsor, A Governess Should Never... Tempt a Prizefighter

“pulling up the discarded blankets. Lucas filled every corner of the small bed with”
― Emily Windsor, Captivating Debutantes

“Connecting the dots of his contoured face in the orange light”
― Emily Windsor

“Evelyn bit her lip. “Yes, yes he will, dearest.” And she closed her eyes to pray. For the morrow. For Artemisia. For Flora. And for all those sleeping in fear tonight, seeking escape from this insidious web of poverty.”
― Emily Windsor, The Duke of Diamonds

“Being encompassed by love and kindness shaped and sustained one’s self-assurance, but the negativity of others cast its shadow deep over one’s soul.”
― Emily Windsor, Merry Christmas, My Viscount

“Yes, Miss Griffin,” she heard him state huskily at last. “You do appear to have found my pectoralis major.”
― Emily Windsor, A Governess Should Never... Tempt a Prizefighter

“He pressed a kiss. Light and lingering. “Allow me to share your burdens. Feel your joy. Heal your woes.” “I…” She swallowed. “Let me warm you each night,” he murmured close, lips brushing her earlobe. “Hour upon hour. Unceasing and heady till we bind as one. Till we no longer recall our names and can only gasp our pleasure.”
― Emily Windsor, The Duke of Diamonds

“felt as naked as a shorn sheep in February.”
― Emily Windsor, A Governess Should Never... Tempt a Prizefighter

“indolent”
― Emily Windsor, An Earl in Wolf's Clothing

“Just friends is worse than love- you can't help who you're in love with, but you could be "just friend" with anyone.”
― Emily Windsor

“the group in the same state of mourning, walking the thin line between giving up and pursuing.”
― Emily Windsor

“Shall I also tell you a truth?” he rasped. “The truth and I parted company long ago,” she found herself saying.”
― Emily Windsor, The Duke of Diamonds

“Yet love, he was finding, was more problematic than the wistful poets gave to believe, for it entailed not just endless sighs, fervent embraces and yearning glances but understanding and trust, compromise and allowing the other to live unconfined.”
― Emily Windsor, A Governess Should Never... Deny a Duke

“Yer poor child. Look at yer, as cold as Milling Mike after ten rounds with Big Bill.”
― Emily Windsor, A Governess Should Never... Tempt a Prizefighter

“All”
― Emily Windsor, A Governess Should Never... Tempt a Prizefighter

“That's the problem with freedom, once you experience it in captivity, confinement becomes exceedingly unbearable.”
― Emily Windsor

“I would rather speak in a room of deaf people than be mute myself.”
― Emily Windsor

“May kindness guide us, may love come to us in its own good time, and may our hearts be as full as our glasses. To friendship!”
― Emily Windsor, A Governess Should Never... Deny a Duke

“Love waits for my surrender, Ever to greet my bared heart, Ardent, honest and tender”
― Emily Windsor, A Governess Should Never... Deny a Duke

“If someone got to know my ideas and philosophical beleifs or saw me talk about the things im passionate about they could fall in love with me, but people don't care about those things.”
― Emily Windsor

“Perhaps that is why we strive for it in its purest form an unfettered natural emotion that allows us to be ourselves for once, to have someone love our true self without the burdens of earthly life interfering.”
― Emily Windsor, A Governess Should Never... Deny a Duke

“I want to kiss you easy and idle. Untamed and fierce.”
― Emily Windsor, A Governess Should Never... Deny a Duke

“it scared Alora to think that one second you could be breathing, with your family. And then gone. Such is death.”
― Emily Windsor

“How she wished the human eyes could take pictures.”
― Emily Windsor

“Fear of failure shall forever contradict my ambition.”
― Emily Windsor

“We get one life, why do we deserve another?”
― Emily Windsor