A.N. Roquelaure Quotes

Source: Beauty's Punishment

“The sight riveted her even more strongly than it had the night before, from this new perspective.”

Beauty

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“My soul is still mine and the only thing a slave can truly possess.”

Beauty

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“She thought of the Crown Prince. She had not loved him. He made her smile. Lady Juliana had affrighted and disturbed her. The Captain thrilled her, exhausted her, surprised her. Mistress Lockley she secretly liked, for all the dread of her. But that was the extremity of it. She didn’t love them. That, and the glory and excitement of belonging to a grand scheme, to use Tristan’s word, was the village to her.”

Beauty

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“Pleasure zinged through her like the echo of a plucked lute string.”

Beauty

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“You were sent to serve, and serve you shall, in the Palace of the Sultan. And have no doubt, you will treasured by your new Masters. Though the Sultan has many slaves from his own land, you captive Princes and Princesses are a special delicacy of sorts, and a great curiosity.”

Beauty Tristan And Laurent

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“Be brave and be clever, clever at pretending you are not clever, that you are no more than the most abject little bundles of ever-demonstrable passion.”

Beauty Tristan And Laurent

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“She was lifted on the great thick cushion, like a treasure.”

Beauty

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“On every inch of her flesh she felt some new stimulation.”

Beauty

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“All around was the bright, airy laughter of the attendants.”

Beauty

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“She’d never truly cared that Lady Julianna at the castle adored her. And this mean, proud little Innkeeper and the handsome, remote Captain of the Guard were touching her heart strangely.”

Beauty

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“O, wicked love,” she thought, “that has so many unnamed components.”

Beauty

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“The village blazed in her mind and she felt stricken and bedazzled and unable to think whether she was good or bad or should be either.”

Beauty

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“She was high-spirited, a sensation at the castle for her hot passions and her inability to conceal even the most transient emotions.”

Beauty

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“Beauty felt a thrill at the lurid flicker, though it struck some deep chord of terror in her.”

Beauty

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“Beauty was thinking of all she had heard and seen, stimulated against her will by Laurent’s suffering.”

Beauty

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“It seemed in some other incarnation she had lived all her life in the village, had served a soldier, and the mingling of noises from the square outside was a comforting music.”

Beauty

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“Somewhere in the back of her mind she knew it was forbidden to speak, but this seemed no more than a moan or a scream.”

Beauty

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“It would begin any moment, the desire that was so sweetly waning.”

Beauty

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“She did not know whether she was longing for the torment or wildly trying to shut it out.”

Beauty

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“Did she long to be hurled downward, away from the high Court of ornate and clever rituals imposed upon her, into some wilderness of disregard where the humiliations and spanking blows would come just as hard and just as fast but with a greater, more savage abandon?”

Beauty

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“A weeping slave pressed against her back, hot flesh against her own, and another warm body crushed against her right side, a great sweep of silky hair brushing her naked shoulder.”

Beauty

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“For one moment, Beauty knew terror. But a delicious abandon took hold of her.”

Beauty

Book:The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty