Alexandra took the rose and lifted it to her face. The fragrance was intoxicating, and the soft petals tickled her lips, as they must have done Benedict’s. It was as if he had kissed her. A shiver of delight caressed her body and she felt the warmth of a blush on her throat and cheeks.

— Ellen Read

Mark ran his fingers over the bindings and whispered words, written long ago, words that wriggled through the aged leather, trembled beneath his touch. What lives and loves, hopes and dreams, deaths and despair these volumes held.

— Ellen Read

There is always stardust in my eyes when I look at you, my love.

— Ellen Read

The spicy sweet fragrance of the large full blooms, which rambled over the side and top of an arched metal framework, welcomed them as they walked beneath them. Shafts of sunlight pierced the canopy, dust motes floating languorously in the golden beams that spotlighted clumps of wayward snowdrops growing in the lawn.

— Ellen Read

This poem inspired me to write my e-book. The Miller's Daughter by Alfred Lord Tennyson And I would be the necklace, And all day long to fall and rise Upon her balmy bosom, With her laughter or her sighs; And I would lie so light, so light, I scarce should be unclasped’d at night.

— Ellen Read

This poem inspired me to write my e-book. The Miller's Daughter by Alfred Lord Tennyson It is the miller’s daughter, And she is grown so dear, so dear, That I would be the jewel That trembles in her ear; For hid in ringlets day and night I’d touch her neck so warm and white.

— Ellen Read

Time meant nothing. She loved him in an instant. She would love him forever.

— Ellen Read