The Sheik: A Novel

“Because I wanted you. Because one day in Biskra, four weeks ago, I saw you for a few moments, long enough to know that I wanted you. And what I want I take.””

— E. M. Hull

“It is very easy to dance if you have a musical ear,and if you have been in the habit of making your body do what you want. So few people seem to be trained to make their limbs obey them. Mine have had to do as they were told since I was a child," she answered calmly.””

— E. M. Hull

“She was utterly in his power and at his mercy”

— E. M. Hull

“To be bound irrevocably to the will and pleasure of a man who would have the right to demand obedience in all that constituted marriage and the strength to enforce those claims revolted her.””

— E. M. Hull

“But she did not blame him, she had brought it on herself; she knew his mood, and he did not know his own strength.””

— E. M. Hull