Ten of My Favourite Barbara Samuel Quotes
Quotes, who doesn’t love a good quote? This series of articles we look at Top 10 Famous Quotes by Author Barbara Samuel, author quotes are always a challenge and fun to pick, with Barbara Samuel you will find my ten favourites of Barbara Samuel’s quotes.
Popular Quotes
“Seems to me people are mean or evil because they’re scared, mostly, or in pain, or afraid they’re going to lose something.”
― Barbara Samuel, The Sleeping Night
“How could you carry the inside of a person with you and not call them a friend, no matter what the rules said?”
― Barbara Samuel, The Sleeping Night
“Maybe not. But maybe that’s how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.”
― Barbara Samuel, The Sleeping Night
“It’s not being a woman I mind so much,” she said slowly. “‘Tis the way men seem to always order my life.” She leaned earnestly toward him. “Your hand, Papa, has wielded a sword and cradled a child and held power over hundreds of men.” She held up her own hand. “This one has far fewer adventures before it.”
― Barbara Samuel, A Bed of Spices
“It only takes one man to make a woman a fool.”
― Barbara Samuel, A Bed of Spices
“There is so little joy in any life, I will take this time with you until I must go.” He smoothed a lock of hair from her face. “In our old age, we’ll remember and be glad.”
― Barbara Samuel, A Bed of Spices
“Yesterday in the restaurant, she’d seen his sex appeal and roughness. At her house, she’d seen his danger. This morning, at the river, she’d seen his beauty and teasing, and again that danger.
Of all of them, the tenderness she saw now was the most compelling. And terrifying.”
― Barbara Samuel, Breaking The Rules
“His mouth. It touched hers lightly, just touched at first. And it seemed every nerve in her body suddenly rushed toward her mouth to join the explosion of sensation his lips brought. He moved his head and his mouth slid one way, then the other, and his fingers tightened around her neck, pulling her closer.”
― Barbara Samuel, Breaking The Rules
“She wanted him. Not in the sweet way of poetry, though there was that music in the symmetry of his body, in the careful meshing of bone and sinew and flesh that made him.
Her want was raw. Physical. She felt it in the palms of her hands and the flesh of her lips and the heaviness of her breasts.
In her life, she’d been hungry, and thirsty. She’d needed sleep. She had never, in her life, needed to touch a man.”
― Barbara Samuel, Breaking The Rules
“He kissed her violently, wanting to somehow inhale her into himself, unable to stop the fury of his reaction, the trembling rocking hunger for her—so vast and all-encompassing, he couldn’t stand it.
Mattie, flowing all around him, met his savagery. He clasped her hips hard against him, found himself biting her neck, laving her breasts with his tongue. He felt such unblunted, furious desire he thought he might die of it.”
― Barbara Samuel, Breaking The Rules
10 Famous Quotes by Author Barbara Samuel
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“He kissed her before he knew he would do it. Cupped her small head against his hand and bent to touch her lips with his own, lightly tasting that sensuous mouth. He closed his eyes to feel it better—the moist plumpness of unseasoned lips, flavored with coffee and sugar and something that belonged only to her. And like an exhausted man sinking with gratitude into the down of a pillow, he sank into the softness, losing himself as he explored the edges and corners, the sensitive inner edge. He suckled gently and heard her sigh as she inclined her head to take him more fully.”
― Barbara Samuel, Breaking The Rules
