The Silver Chain Quotes

“Gustav Levi is calm for the first time. A ship that’s been hurled by the storm into harbour. He’s where he wants to be. He is finally inside me, taking full physical possession. Fucking me. He increases his pace, thrusting once, twice more, his pleasure, my pleasure, this wonderful new calmness and belonging, then as the storm crashes over us, over the chalet, battering at the mountain, we come together.”
― Primula Bond, The Silver Chain

“I gasp in pain as the grinding sexual jealousy overwhelms me. I’m the reluctant voyeur in the forbidden room. I shouldn’t be here. I’m a trespasser in Bluebeard’s castle.”
― Primula Bond, The Silver Chain

“I’m your patron. You’re my protégée. What a patron does is take the protégée under his wing. And what protégées do is what they’re told.”
― Primula Bond, The Silver Chain

“Think of it as a symbol. Here’s the chain, joining us together. I know it’s a symbol of captivity. Slavery, even. But I also like to think it represents an anchoring. You know, like the rope thrown over the side of a ship.”
― Primula Bond, The Silver Chain

“Good girl. So. Are you ready to do this? You and me, working and playing together?”
― Primula Bond, The Silver Chain

“You’re pleasing me already. Look at you. So lovely perched here in front of me, opening your legs for me. So quiet now. Obedient. Willing. Just the way I like it.”
― Primula Bond, The Silver Chain

“Remember, you’re free to leave whenever you wish. But I guarantee by the end of our time together you’ll wonder how you ever lived without the attention I’m going to lavish on you.”
― Primula Bond, The Silver Chain

“Remember that. ‘And this personal pleasure will come from me?’ ‘I want to be able to call you my own, Serena. For a measurable period. Enough to restore my faith in womankind.”
― Primula Bond, The Silver Chain

“His mouth has a story to tell, I’m certain of it. How can it be amused and sardonic, hard and inviting, all at the same time? It’s daring me, or asking me something. It’s wide, and confident, but it also desperately needs to know a lot more. About me. About his prey.”
― Primula Bond, The Silver Chain