Beauty's Punishment Quotes

“I am such a bad girl," she thought. Yet...”
― Anne Rice, Beauty's Punishment

“In some realm beyond thought, she felt she was not human. The pleasure dissolved the humanity she had known.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“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?”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“Beauty tried to shut out the sound of the crowd; it was a horrid sound, like that of a great beast coming out of its lair; she knew she was trembling.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“She did not know whether she was longing for the torment or wildly trying to shut it out.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“A lovely village woman with a pretty red skirt and white ruffled blouse was spanking her slave quite diligently upon a wooden counter, and the lovely face peering through its tears was that of Beauty. She writhed and struggled under the paddle. But I could see she was unfettered, just as I had been last night on the Public Turntable.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“I journeyed through excruciating humiliations. The Bridle Path, the other games of Festival Night in her Majesty’s gardens; I was the Queen’s toy now and then; Lord Gregory, The Master of the slaves. excited the most exquisite fear in me. But I never pleased Lord Stefan because he himself did not know how to be pleased! He did not know to command! I was always distracted by other Lords.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“Our passions had been purged, but we kissed in a fever, our arms tight around each other, the affection overflowing.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“You who have had power understood it as you knelt at Lord Stefan’s feet. Poor Lord Stefan.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“You’ve shown me that for the true slave, the rigors of the castle and the village become a great adventure.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“You have spoken from your soul, but what is clear is that you accept your slavery as easily as they do. Of course, as the Queen has explained to me, all slaves are examined. And only the likely, as well as the beautiful, are chosen.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“All I could do was look at him, lost in the heat of his voice and the look in his eyes. But my soul was soaring.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“I am in love with you, your secret soul that is as vulnerable as the reddened flesh under my strap, and all your collected strength under our combined governance!”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“The muscles in my thighs positively sang with delicious pain.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“I feel myself opening to all punishments instead of triumphing over them with sublime form as I did at the castle. I am being turned inside out. I belong to the Captain, and to you, to all who look. I am becoming my punishments.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“I was being offered up to the crowd and I submitted to it. I collected all the crowd’s frenzy to myself, and the crowd enlarged my punishment as they enjoyed it, and I belonged to hundreds and hundreds of Masters and Mistresses. I yielded to their lust. I held back nothing, resisted nothing.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“I could have loved many Masters or Mistresses perhaps. But you have an eerie beauty that debiliitates me and absorbs me. You illuminate the punishments. I don’t…I don’t understand it.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“For a well-tuned slave, the crudest cleaning woman or chimney sweep can have an overwhelming charm if the discipline is engulfing.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“O, wicked love,” she thought, “that has so many unnamed components.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“He has at least found the slave he desires.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“The door opened and the pert figure of Mistress Lockley appeared, all fresh linen and lovely blue ribbons, her blouse brought down so loose over her mounded breasts that Beauty could see the nipples.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“The most wicked smile was on Mistress Lockley’s exquisite face, and she came right towards Beauty.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“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.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“What you must do is endear yourself to Mistress Lockley. And you don’t do that with disobedience. You do it with a good show of submission.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“Beauty was thinking of all she had heard and seen, stimulated against her will by Laurent’s suffering.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“I tried to cool myself with the wine, strengthen my voice, the silence stretching again as I drank.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“I looked into my Master’s eyes. The blue was only a glimmer of blue, the dark centers large and almost glittering.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“I took pleasure in pleasing you.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“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.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment

“Beauty felt dizzy and weak and totally without resistance. She stared into the lovely dark eyes meekly.”
― A.N. Roquelaure, Beauty's Punishment