Madelynne Ellis > Quotes

“There was a stillness, an absence that came with death, a sort of primal revulsion for the thing that was no more even while enduring the pain of their loss and desiring to cling to what had been.”
― Madelynne Ellis, A Devilish Element

“The burnished copper of his hair tumbled around his face like threads of fire, while the shadows softened the harder ridges of his jaw and nose.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Her Husband's Lover

“All my defences are shredded, ripped away, exposing me. I'm sure he can see right down into my core, because I'm seeing into the very heart of him, and I'm petrified by what I find there.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Crazy Love

“This is madness. I’ve no clothes, no money and no promises from you.” “You have one. My protection.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Three Times the Scandal

“Your sister is an unbelievable minx,” laughed Neddy. He stretched his long legs out before him and rubbed a hand across his loins. “I swear she’s just given me a stiff the length of a yardstick.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Three Times the Scandal

“Love is no respecter of laws, God’s or otherwise.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Pure Folly

“And what, pray tell, is the point of being a libertine if one can’t be a shocking disgrace?”
― Madelynne Ellis, Three Times the Scandal

“Alcohol isn’t the answer, Spook.” “Shagging me isn’t the answer, Xane.” “It’d be fun though.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Reflex

“Vaughan stepped out of the shadows and threw his coat over a chair back. He always seemed happiest and most dangerous when he was half undressed, as if he was peeling off a layer of civility along with his coat.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Phantasmagoria: MMF Bisexual Gothic Regency Ménage Romance

“His voice dropped an octave, and crawled across her senses making each nerve vibrate. “That and you’re forgetting. You like it when I’m cruel.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Phantasmagoria: MMF Bisexual Gothic Regency Ménage Romance

“Ned, just because you’re hung like an ass doesn’t mean you have to act like one.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Three Times the Scandal

“Tonight, horror and pleasure would collide in a hellish opera.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Phantasmagoria: MMF Bisexual Gothic Regency Ménage Romance

“Spook’s brows concertinaed.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Reflex

“The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey,” Wakefield said, spying the spine of the red-leather bound tome. “Do not tell me you have succumbed to this gothic nonsense too?”
― Madelynne Ellis, The Serpent's Kiss

“marriage is all about virtue, about women as possessions. Wouldn’t you rather be a whole person, responsible for yourself, than the asset of some fool husband?”
― Madelynne Ellis, Three Times the Scandal

“Life sucks, sometimes. It’s not always roses. In fact, it’s hardly ever roses. Mostly it’s just spade after spade full of shitty fertiliser that you pray is eventually going to produce some blooms instead of weeds.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Don't Mess With My Relic: A MMF Why Choose Adventure Romance

“Jeezus, it ought to be illegal to remind people what they said and did while drunk.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Reflex

“Dying for love had always struck him as hideously impractical.”
― Madelynne Ellis, The Serpent's Kiss

“As his cousin Ric had once pointed out shortly after the loss of his wife, sometimes the demons got out and smashed the living fuck out of shit regardless of your will or whim. And they rarely gave a damn about the consequences”
― Madelynne Ellis, Reflex

“I don’t think you were foolish though. It’s not foolish to pursue something you desire. I just think you sought the wrong thing of the wrong man.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Three Times the Scandal

“I trust you, Spook Mortensen. How about you start trusting me as well?” She formed his hands around the handle.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Reflex

“Pick something. Do it, Spook. I’ll still be here at the end of it, and I’ll still want you.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Reflex

“Unexpected family shit,” he said. “That’s the text you should have sent me. Succinct. Self-explanatory. You’re not responsible for your brother’s actions.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Reflex

“That was the thing with emotional scars. They didn’t heal in the way broken bones did, rather the repercussions got entangled with your personality.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Don't Mess With My Relic: A MMF Why Choose Adventure Romance

“She wanted his kisses to rain down upon her face, wanted to feel passion and love.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Three Times the Scandal

“He’d smacked Lieutenant Wilkes of the 52nd Oxfordshires across the cheek with his glove for his insolent remarks towards Bella. Nobody got to call her a whore, except him.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Phantasmagoria: MMF Bisexual Gothic Regency Ménage Romance

“I do believe you’re the most enchanting creature I’ve ever met, the most bewitching, the most beautiful, and definitely the tastiest.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Three Times the Scandal

“I’m going to eat you up little bird. Better run before I pluck you of your feathers.”
― Madelynne Ellis, The Serpent's Kiss

“He stirred slowly, waking from the dark dream with cobwebs of woe still clinging to his skin like a dusty raiment.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Her Husband's Lover

“You want her. She wants you. Stop being a twat,” he’d said. As dressing downs went, it was one of the more succinct he’d endured.”
― Madelynne Ellis, Reflex