African Quote by Lucy Michot

“She touched him and found that even something as innocent as the lacing of their fingers could raise all the hairs on the back…

— Jodi Picoult

“her mind was still picking away like a hen at a patch of plain dirt.”

— Ella Carey

“The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“She dragged the soft cloth up and up, the fabric tickling along his sensitized skin. He trembled. Never had he been so responsive to…

— Angela Quarles

“I've never asked you to give the least considerations to my feelings." He could picture her holding the word with fingertips at arm's length,…

— Cecilia Grant

“The linen felt perilously thin between them, and she could feel the well-muscled contours of his chest and thighs and... and that obscene dagger…

— Glynnis Campbell

“The place had a feeling unlike any other she'd visited. There were no altars nor golden trim, but for the first time in her…

— Jay Kristoff

“He wondered if she’d been waiting all these nights to come because she hadn’t had a nightgown. He started to ask her. But there…

— Shirley Ann Grau

“He said what nobody understood was, she always felt like a bird in a cage--she wanted to be without roots.”

— Kate Alcott

“She was no lithe virgin. Hers was the gentle voluptuousness of a grown woman, with a hint of fullness of breast and hip that…

— J.A. Jance

“She felt raw, a painting that wasn't dry yet. One hard nudge and she'd smear all over the place.”

— Ashley Herring Blake

“Long ago she'd clamped an iron shell around her heart and nothing and no one could pry it lose, but deep inside the tender…

— Sarah Sundin