Fierce Eden Quotes

“harlots by the religious fathers in their black robes while the Indian men who refrain from women are called upright and extremely moral! They don’t understand that a man is expected to be able to ignore the promptings of his male needs while a woman has the right to satisfy her curiosity about men, even the one she will marry, before she is wedded for life. Our marriages are much happier than those of the French.”
― Jennifer Blake, Fierce Eden

“You are mistaken. They do not snatch and grab as do the men of your race. With us, no man touches a woman in passion unless he is invited. It is a mark of a warrior that he has complete control of his desires.” Elise stared at her in amazement,”
― Jennifer Blake, Fierce Eden

“It was a good day for smoking meat, being dry, cool, and bright, and there were strips of deer, bear, opossum, and even the tail of an alligator hanging over the slow-burning fires.”
― Jennifer Blake, Fierce Eden

“Surely they would divorce you for it.” “No, why? It would be to lose everything for the man while his wife would lose nothing. In any case, it is not possible. Divorce is a thing of women.”
― Jennifer Blake, Fierce Eden

“There is nothing unusual in the activities outside marriage, or otherwise, of women. It is our privilege. But men are required to be faithful. An Indian man discovered in the arms of another woman can be put to death on the order of his wife.”
― Jennifer Blake, Fierce Eden

“As much as he needed the sweet surcease to be had in her body, he yearned to know her mind, to seek deep within it and sense a welcome for him there. He wanted to share her thoughts, her dreams, her secrets. He wanted her to come to him with desire, to reach inside him and discover how open he was to her.”
― Jennifer Blake, Fierce Eden

“You mean why am I forcing you to come with me? The answer is simple. I want you.”
― Jennifer Blake, Fierce Eden

“Which was he, then, savage or gentleman?”
― Jennifer Blake, Fierce Eden