Dancing on Coals Quotes

“If a man could taste wind and fire, they would taste like Katherine. When he stood in high places looking down on things made small by distance, he tried to feel what the eagle felt soaring free on the wind. He was an earthbound man. Only his spirit could ever soar, and only Katherine raised him so high.”
― Ellen O'Connell, Dancing on Coals

“Your skin is white, but I think the white god made a mistake, or maybe he did it on purpose to play a joke. He gave you an Apache heart.”
― Ellen O'Connell, Dancing on Coals

“She toyed with the top button of his shirt. “Do Apaches kiss?”
“The people believe the mouth is only for eating.”
“Oh.” She didn’t try to hide her disappointment.
He shifted her against him a little and cupped her breast with one hand, his thumb rubbing across the nipple. “They also believe a woman’s breast is only for nursing a child.”
Lowering his mouth over hers, he ran his tongue between her lips, exploring her tongue, making her shiver with a stroke along the roof of her mouth.
When he raised his head at last, she whispered, “I’m glad you’re an unbeliever.”
― Ellen O'Connell, Dancing on Coals

“He entered her slowly, determined to keep a tight hold on the lust pounding in his veins. She wrapped her legs higher, took him deeper and deeper. Her hands dug into the muscles of his rear, urging, telling him what she wanted and what he needed were the same. He obeyed and thrust harder, driving into her not with anger but with a desperate raw need. He felt her climax, her body arching, tightening and contracting around him as she cried out against his neck. He shuddered with the intensity of the explosion that wracked his body and spirit and wrung a deep cry from him.
“Katherine.” I was afraid. I missed you. I love you.”
― Ellen O'Connell, Dancing on Coals

“He entered her in a single hard thrust, opening her, stretching her and forcing a moan of surprise from her. She was ready, so ready, and yet totally unprepared. She’d been wrong. She was still virgin to this, to his strength and her need, to the pleasure and the pain and the sheer triumph of having him. He drove into her and she rose to him, clutched him tighter, harder. Her nails raked and dug into his back, her teeth into his neck.”
― Ellen O'Connell, Dancing on Coals

“Facing him, she saw what she didn’t need to see to know. Even if most wives experienced being washed by a fully aroused, naked husband, they would never know this — a man no words had been invented to describe, beyond handsome, beyond beautiful. His skin glowed copper in the light from the fire, shadows emphasizing the curves of muscle and planes of bone. His erection was hers, for her.”
― Ellen O'Connell, Dancing on Coals

“Your brother told me once, ‘Gaetan believes what he wants to.’ Do you
believe as your people do, or did some of the things they taught at the school
take root?”
About the time she wondered if not answering was his way of telling her to
mind her own business, he said, “My brother was wrong. If I could choose, I
would choose the Chihinne way. The things I learned in the school make that
impossible, so I believe what I can, not what I want to.”
― Ellen O'Connell, Dancing on Coals

“Cursing sounded in a coarse voice completely unlike that of either the driver or the guard. “God damn it! I told you to stay out of sight until they were all out.”
― Ellen O'Connell, Dancing on Coals

“How about talking to us in American for a while, missy,” he boomed. Katherine stiffened and turned an icy glare on the man.”
― Ellen O'Connell, Dancing on Coals