| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 1 | 138 | It was not much of a beating, of View more quotes about course">course. |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 1 | 135 | There was nothing personal, or emotional, in the beating. |
| 1 | 136 | It was almost like a natural force or a clockwork of nature. |
| 1 | 137 | There was enough time between the strokes to allow her to feel each one individually and fully, and enhance, maximizing, the irradiations of its predecessors, enough time for her, in the fullness of her pain, imagination and terror, to prepare herself for, and anticipate, fearfully and acutely, the next blow. |
| 1 | 138 | It was not much of a beating, of course. |
| 1 | 139 | She had erred. |
| 1 | 140 | She was being punished. |
| 1 | 141 | Then she was lying on her belly, on the tiles, the beating over. |