Annabel Joseph > Quotes

“It was good for her though, to submit to things that weren’t for her pleasure, but his.”
― Annabel Joseph, Cirque de Minuit

“Do you have some kind of syndrome that makes you act this way, or are you just a rude, socially inept asshole?”
― Annabel Joseph, Cirque de Minuit

“I want to mark you, and I want to own you. I want to fucking live inside you.”
― Annabel Joseph, Owning Wednesday

“What kind of slut do you think I am?”
Theo bumped his hips against hers. “This might not be the best moment to ask me that.”
― Annabel Joseph, Cirque de Minuit

“I missed him like madness. I missed him so I lay in bed every night and cried for an hour. I missed him so that food had no taste and art had no beauty and life had no meaning.”
― Annabel Joseph, Mercy

“I'm going to hurt you. I'm going to make you very uncomfortable tonight, but you're going to be safe. Do you trust me?”
― Annabel Joseph, Dark Control

“Do you know about it, Kelsey?” he asked after a while. “Dominance and submission? This thing we’re doing? I don’t know so good how to explain it. Only how to do it.”
― Annabel Joseph, Cirque de Minuit

“Oh my God. Party punch. He’d brought a woman with the social age of twelve to the Citadel. He deserved everything he got.”
― Annabel Joseph, Cirque de Minuit

“Theo was so pleased with her, so proud of her. In love with her, whatever love was.”
― Annabel Joseph, Cirque de Minuit

“Too normal, I’d worry about. Too weird is perfectly fine.”
― Annabel Joseph, Waking Kiss

“I wanted this girl, entitled asshole that I was, but I didn’t deserve her.”
― Annabel Joseph, Waking Kiss

“You can put your bra back on if you want. A lot of people play in clothes.” I turned and gestured around the room, where absolutely no one was playing in clothes. “Maybe not tonight, but…”
― Annabel Joseph, Waking Kiss

“Do you enjoy being cruel?”
“Jesus. That’s a really loaded question.”
“It’s a yes or no question.”
“And one I’d rather not answer if nothing’s going to happen between us.”
― Annabel Joseph, Waking Kiss

“You’re the prince whose kiss awakened me after a hundred years. The wait was nothing.”
― Annabel Joseph, Waking Kiss

“My cock ached, but this moment was more than sex, more than horniness.”
― Annabel Joseph, Taunt Me

“My dark, surrendered world was filled with his dominance, and a fine edge of pain.”
― Annabel Joseph, Taunt Me

“They stopped and bowed their heads close together as the revelers ate and danced and celebrated around the glow of the fire. Darkness was falling over Lilyvale, the pink horizon a glorious and unusual marvel.

Lily and James hardly noticed, lost as they were in the preciousness of the moment. "Lily mine," James whispered. "We're finally home.”
― Annabel Joseph, Lily Mine

“I have to help you, Ash. I can’t say no to what you’re asking, but I’m afraid I’ll hurt you in this process. I won’t mean to, but I will.”
― Annabel Joseph, Waking Kiss

“She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.”
― Annabel Joseph, Torment Me

“He and Harmony had been wed a week now, and still the briefest glance at his wife awakened the savage in him. The smallest movement or casual touch made him want to rip off her clothes and press her back on the table and rut on her wildly. His mother would not have approved.”
― Annabel Joseph, Disciplining the Duchess

“I was his comfort object, and what he asked for, I did.”
― Annabel Joseph, Comfort Object

“Yes, Sir.” I sounded weak, whimpery. I sounded every bit as scared as I felt. I still clutched at him, like he might relent. “Put your arms down, Chere. Stop trying to get away from me. You heard what I said.” Oh, yes, I’d heard. Until I’m done, you’re going to do whatever the fuck I say. Later, I’d masturbate to those words. I’d picture his face as he said them, although he wasn’t letting me see him now.”
― Annabel Joseph, Taunt Me

“She went along with whatever I did, but I wanted something less generous and more… dubiously consensual. Like cuffing a passed-out woman to my guest room bed.”
― Annabel Joseph, Dark Control

“I’d rather have the want of you The rich, elusive taunt of you”
― Annabel Joseph, Taunt Me

“You asked what I’m into,” he said in a level, quiet voice. “I’m into tears and power trips. I’m into capriciously hurting you because it’s unfair, and because you’ll let me do it anyway. I’m into reducing you to a sex object, and sometimes sharing you with my friends. I’m into bruises and welts on a regular basis, marks you’ll wear like a uniform because I want you to. But I’m mostly into tears, Juliet, and tormenting you.”
― Annabel Joseph, Dark Control

“Some part of me was aroused by that trust. Another part of me felt like the wolf leading Red Riding Hood into the forest.”
― Annabel Joseph, Waking Kiss

“You stood with me in the bleak, black house. Don’t let the light fool you. Don’t leave me. What if you leave?”
― Annabel Joseph, Trust Me

“Maybe...Maybe this was one of those moments in life, one of those karmic incidents you had to embrace. Maybe the universe had put this man in my path for a reason. Maybe it wasn't coincidence that he'd been there to unlock the dressing room door.”
― Annabel Joseph, Waking Kiss

“W had never asked what I liked. He just grabbed and forced and took, and gave me soul-crushing orgasms.”
― Annabel Joseph, Taunt Me

“I’d come here to fuck Ashleigh Keaton. There was no way in hell I was staying out.”
― Annabel Joseph, Waking Kiss