| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 9 | 181 | Too, their treatment View more quotes about might">might, in some trivial ways, perhaps smooth, or make a bit less traumatic, the transition to bondage, which was a likely, as well as suitable, disposition for them. |
| 9 | 182 | To be sure, there is probably no fully adequate way for one to anticipate, or prepare for, psychologically, the actual transition to bondage, even if one eagerly seeks it, even if one welcomes it joyously, for with it comes a new and profoundly different understanding of one's self and nature; by it, you see, a categorical and radical transformation of one's realities is effected; in it one realizes, suddenly, that one is now no longer what one was before, that one is now something absolutely different, that one is now no longer a free person, but a property, subject to buying and selling, an animal, a slave. |
| 9 | 183 | Phoebe knelt near the fire, back on her heels. |
| 9 | 184 | Occasionally she would kneel, up, off her heels, and stir the porridge. |
| 9 | 185 | "Keep your back straight," I told her. |
| 9 | 186 | "Yes, Master," she said. |
| 9 | 187 | Her body was slim, her hair was long, bound behind the back of her head with the black cord. |