“Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.”

“Just in case you were thinking, on some level, that there was even the slightest bit of enjoyment in it for me. That I found a strange sort of freedom in your vicious embrace. Your embrace. There is no freedom there. There is only what has to be done.”

“Somebody, it seemed, gave it out that I loved ladies; and then everybody presented me their ladies (or the ladies presented themselves) to be embraced, that is to have their necks kissed...The French ladies had a thousand other ways of rendering themselves agreeable by their various attentions and civilities, and their sensible conversation. Tis a delightful people to live with.”

“Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.”

“I stand there, feeling broken and small, thousands of eyes trained on me.”

“Love has no pride. Love is open, honest, and given freely without bonds or secrets or inhibitions."Book ~ Embracing My Submission”