Lucifer's Angel Quotes

“It's funny, but Shakespeare, with all its passion, never does too well at the box office. And d'you know why? Because most people are fools. They shrink like violets from good, honest passion, which, if only they'd be honest and admit it, is all they feel themselves in the name of love. They will wrap sex up in pretty, piffling declarations of love. The big, tough hero must carry his mate off into the bush, but by heaven, if he doesn't say, afterwards, 'I love you, darling' — cut! The censor is swooning. Or the public are.”
― Violet Winspear, Lucifer's Angel

“Sunshine merely settles on the skin, it doesn't penetrate, or so I've found," he murmured cynically.”
― Violet Winspear, Lucifer's Angel

“She knew him for what he was, an imperious, swaggering pirate of a man who went his own way; reaching out decisively for what he wanted, rejecting, without a moment's hesitation what he didn't want. Superbly, arrogantly free of petty fear or petty disapproval; neither a gentle man nor a patient one, his temper would create a small hell for her should she ever arouse it.
Yet she loved him — and beneath her fear, thrilling along her nerves, there suddenly sprang into being a primitive gladness that she awaited his coming, that she wore his ring—that she belonged to him.”
― Violet Winspear, Lucifer's Angel

“You shouldn't do this — you shouldn't!" was all she found breath to say.
He laughed softly, deeply. "I'm doing it, though. Want me to stop?"
"Yes"
"Little liar!" He took her lips then and Fay was lost. Like a small moth she fluttered in the dark flame of him and it mattered not that destruction might lie beyond the ecstasy he offered now.”
― Violet Winspear, Lucifer's Angel