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  1. Jacqueline Carey _ Kushiel's Chosen

    Pain and pleasure, yes, of course, but there are others, too. Cruelty, humiliation, dominance ... and compassion and kindness. It took all of these, to make truly exquisite music. That was the part so few understood. Affection.
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  2. Jacqueline Carey _ Kushiel's Chosen

    As gloriously, splendidly, intractably single-minded as he was, loving him was like grasping a knife, a clean white blaze of pain that kept me anchored to myself.
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  3. Jacqueline Carey _ Kushiel's Chosen

    How strange, how compelling a pain; to cause injury to a loved one.
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  4. Jacqueline Carey _ Kushiel's Chosen

    There were barbs on the words, his formal address. I endured them in silence and watched him go, leaving me alone with the remorseless pleasure of my pain.
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  5. Jacqueline Carey _ Kushiel's Chosen

    There is a madness in love.
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  6. Jacqueline Carey _ Kushiel's Chosen

    Hard, his hands on my shoulders; my head rocked with the force of his fury as he shook me. Ah, Elua, it was sweet! The violence of it was spark to tinder for me.
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  7. Jacqueline Carey _ Kushiel's Chosen

    I settled back to sit on my heels, liking the mild discomfort of the hard marble. It had been a long time since I had been able to make obeisance to anyone with unadulterated pleasure; I led a strange life...
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  8. Jacqueline Carey _ Kushiel's Chosen

    It involved Melisande, and the razor-sharp blades they call flechettes, and a good deal of me screaming ... I have dreams about it still, and Elua help me, some of them are exquisite.
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  9. Jacqueline Carey _ Kushiel's Chosen

    Wide grey eyes and a mop of red-gold curls, a charming sprinkle of freckles across the bridge of her nose-there is a limit, within the canons, of the number allowable for beauty.
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  10. Jacqueline Carey _ Kushiel's Chosen

    ... mothers have wept less, bidding farewell to their children. At least, mine certainly did.
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  11. Jacqueline Carey _ Kushiel's Chosen

    Would that I could make of heart and soul something other than a battleground!
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  12. Jacqueline Carey _ Kushiel's Chosen

    He paced the room like a caged tiger, splendid in his wounded anger.
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