22 Quotes by Violet Winspear

Woman is as elemental as the sea, and at times equally terrible in her power.′ he murmured. ‘Man resorts to brute force in order to subdue her subtle cruelty, for he is constantly aware of the forces which can overcome his strength and drown his will to a mere incoherent murmur in the silken hollow of a fragile white shoulder. Be wise in your power, pequena. It can bring you happiness or despair.

Experience could not be acquired from the innocent, and in a way it is a schooling for the innocence we eventually acquire in a wife. If you have not known the devil you can never appreciate an angel.

There had to come a moment when we were both undermined by the fact that he is a man, and when it came I surrendered to him body and soul. I wanted to. And it was heaven.

Sunshine merely settles on the skin, it doesn’t penetrate, or so I’ve found,” he murmured cynically.

At the kernel of every promise, there is always a little doubt, like a fragment of shell that clings to the broken nut.

Vanessa was pondering the Spanish insistence on love. Did the Latin male consider it was all women were born for, to feel and give love; to devote all their life and energy to it?

She smiled and touched the smattering of silver at his temple, a shyness in her, and yet a new self-possession in her as she came to the realization that love turns a girl into a woman, and a man into a boy.

Love and infatuation are like time and tide. One is forever, the other comes and goes.

Love without a little fighting is like potatoes without salt.