The voluntary captive The speechless the prisoner Which I hide in my very depths.

A truly submissive woman is to be treasured, cherished and protected for it is only she who can give a man the gift of dominance.

O felt that her mouth was beautiful, since her lover condescended to thrust himself into it . . .

Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.

To love is to live on the precipice.

Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images, lies in contemplation of herself.

I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.

Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time, a world that no longer exists except between the covers of a book.

I wrote 'The story of O' alone, for Dominique Aury, to interest him, to please him, to occupy him. I wasn't young, nor particularly pretty. I needed something which might interest a man like him.

You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.

By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

If we desire our souls to be sanctify, we shall hunger for the Truth.

I clench my teeth as tears come. I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them. ~ 'Tris

There was for everything a possibility, an invisible pattern that could be made manifest given work and the right materials.

When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

My motto - sans limites.

There is nothing boring in life except ourselves.

Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There's no better way to fly.

Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.