Bertrice Small > Quotes

“The gentlemen like it when a lady smells sweet.”
― Bertrice Small, Lost Love Found

“There scotsmen must have arses like leather,for while he ate I could see naught beneath his kilts but a pair of rather large balls ," the secretary told him . - philippa”
― Bertrice small

“Beauty, it would seem, was both a blessing and a curse.”
― Bertrice Small, Lara

“I speak from the heart words I have no right to say. Words that I should have never uttered to you, yet I cannot help myself. I love you and I shall love you through eternity itself.”
― Bertrice Small

“The Queen, in love with love, returned her royal consent. [allowing newlyweds to honeymoon in private instead of appearing at Court to Queen Elizabeth I]”
― Bertrice Small, Skye O'Malley

“Did you not take the opportunity to bathe, gentlemen?" Valentina questioned them, trying to take her mind off her body, which felt unusually sensitive in this sultry climate. The silk of her gown seemed to rub against her nipples with every breath.”
― Bertrice Small, Lost Love Found

“Once the Wheel of Love has been set in motion, there is no absolute rule.Your being contains mine; now I am truly part of you. Together as one, we form an unbroken circle of love.The wife is half the man, his priceless friend; Of pleasure, virtue, wealth, his constant source; A help throughout his earthly years; Through life unchanging, even beyond its end.”
― Bertrice Small, This Heart of Mine

“When one cannot satisfy one appetite, one satisfies another,”
― Bertrice Small, This Heart of Mine

“It is their constant carping that has really made them old. Age is but another step in the natural cycle of life. We are growing old from the moment of our birth.”
― Bertrice Small, Lost Love Found

“Life wasn't always fair, she thought, but there it is. You took what was handed you and make the best of it.”
― Bertrice Small, This Heart of Mine

“He loved her! Despite it all, he still loved her! He was willing to wait!”
― Bertrice Small, Skye O'Malley

“Your being contains mine; now I am truly part of you. Together as one, we form an unbroken circle of love.”
― Bertrice Small, Wild Jasmine

“like”
― Bertrice Small, The Love Slave

“beautiful.” Valentina flung”
― Bertrice Small, Lost Love Found

“You must fetter his soul before you bind your body to his in lovemaking,”
― Bertrice Small, Wild Jasmine

“Was there really such a thing as forever? Nay. There was but a moment in time, and those who were wise lived each moment to its fullest, for a moment gone could never come again.”
― Bertrice Small, A Moment in Time

“Has my mother not always told me that when one door closes another opens?”
― Bertrice Small, This Heart of Mine

“some”
― Bertrice Small, The Sorceress of Belmair

“Take yer happiness, try to harm none, and let no man, even the one ye love, dominate ye. ’Tis my rule of life now.”
― Bertrice Small, This Heart of Mine

“After a few more minutes of rain, which came in thick, silver sheets accompanied by spectacular lightning and noisy thunder, the storm passed over them, moving on into the valley below. The sun burst forth over the mountaintop, gilding the lush, wet summer greenery, touching the stone ruins with a golden light and bringing a new warmth to them. A red kite, catching a whorl in the wind, soared out over the valley to her right.”
― Bertrice Small, A Moment in Time

“How delicious an instrument is woman, when artfully played upon; how capable is she of producing the most exquisite harmonies, or executing the most complicated variations of love, and of giving the most Divine of erotic pleasures. —Ananga Ranga”
― Bertrice Small, This Heart of Mine

“Seducing highborn ladies, and raping peasant girls was a lark, but when Piers had suggested murder, he had thought him simply struggling with the frustration of losing for the first time in his life.”
― Bertrice Small, Darling Jasmine

“She, only, is a king! She, only, knows how to rule!”
― Bertrice Small, Lost Love Found

“Akbar, though he could neither read nor write, was a highly educated man.”
― Bertrice Small, This Heart of Mine

“a”
― Bertrice Small, The Twilight Lord

“rooms.”
― Bertrice Small, Skye O'Malley

“Elizabeth Tudor weakly squeezed Valentina’s fingers. She said, “Tell that woman I shall be waiting for her.” Then she closed her eyes and slept again.”
― Bertrice Small, Lost Love Found

“should be. I will never take”
― Bertrice Small, All the Sweet Tomorrows

“Religion should be a personal and private thing between a soul and God.”
― Bertrice Small, All the Sweet Tomorrows

“I have no choices left to me at all. I shall marry my cousin, sire children, and do all that is expected of me.”
― Bertrice Small, Besieged