8 Quotes by Emma Wildes

I take it, since you sought to change matters, I was the one you found boring.

There are two types of people in the world, the bright lights and the quite shadows.

The most impoverished peasant can be delighted by the opening of the first spring flower, and the most wealthy aristocrat can curse the day he was born because of some petty offense to his sensibilities. She is a very wise woman. To achieve serenity we have to view life not as it is measured by the world around us but as we ourselves measure it. We must accept that the scales are not at all equal.

Actually, Elizabeth realized, when he laughed like that, he did look quite handsome. His dark brown hair and his eyes, so light a brown as to seem almost gold in color, were not quite as nondescript as she'd once thought. Maybe the giggling young ingenues weren't completely daft. Despite his maddening tendencies to be deliberately obtuse and tease her relentlessly, he had a certain charisma.

The implied trust was humbling. He didn't deserve it, but then again, he wouldn't betray it either.

I know it is a cliché, but reformed rakes do make admirable husbands. Why? First of all, their wild oats are thoroughly sown. The second reason? They know how to please a woman between the sheets.Think about it. After all, that is what made them rakes in the first place.

Men are a little different than women... We kind of regard virginity as something to dispose of as quickly as we’re able to do so.” Parker West.

Tell me about Spain.” He shrugged but his face went shuttered. “I survived. Many others didn’t. That is enough said about it, really. War is not a glamorous topic, nor should it be. We laud our heroes, but what it takes to make them such is not pleasant.