The Maid's Secret Quotes

“The more you repress something, the stronger that desire is fueled.”
― Anita Zara, The Maid's Secret

“Power beyond words lurked in the beast’s gaze, a magnetic force that ensnared my vision. I couldn’t tear my eyes away from the creature. Its serpentine tongue crept out, moist and glistening. Circling and circling and circling. I rolled my hips in tune, and an ungloved thumb caressed the sensitive nub. My mouth stretched into a silent scream, covered by a writhing tentacle.”
― Anita Zara, The Maid's Secret

“My curiosity aroused, I flipped to another page. 蛸と海女: Tako to Ama, trans. ‘The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife.’ Head thrown back, eyes closed, a nude woman lay sprawled ashore. Her brows creased in anguish and ecstasy. As she was pleasured by a large octopus.

No, octopi. I trailed a finger along the suctioned underside of the creature’s appendage to her breast where a smaller octopus latched onto. The painting might’ve been unmoving, but it held an animated quality. The woman writhing on the shore; the fluid movements of the sea creatures as the trio derived mutual pleasure from their strange encounter. Their visceral desire seeped through the page, and I was but a voyeur.”
― Anita Zara, The Maid's Secret

“How romantic and dreamy.” My mistress sighed. “I should make someone pick a lover’s quarrel with me.”

“I could do it.” The jest slipped out, my brain catching up seconds later to what my mouth had just said.

“Would you, really?” Viola asked quietly.

The mood shifted, the light, playful air between us dissolving.”
― Anita Zara, The Maid's Secret

“Did you know,” she said, “they say the colour of a lady’s lips is an exact match to another region on the body?” Her gaze drifted below her water-covered stomach.

My face grew hot. The burning need to say something, anything, scorched my tongue.”
― Anita Zara, The Maid's Secret