4 Quotes & Sayings By Astrid Knowles

Astrid Knowles is a writer, speaker, podcaster, and host of the podcast Astrid & Company . Her first book, The Joy of Less , was published by St. Martin's Press in February 2015. She also regularly contributes to Huffington Post Women , Cosmopolitan US , and Rookie Mag Read more

She is a graduate of the Columbia Publishing Course at Columbia University.

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Who am I to deny my Master pleasure, simply because it is not at the hands of myself? He is free to do as he will, because of the life that he has given me. I am thankful for him, for the fact that out of all of us, I am the one that he chooses to keep and care for as his own. Astrid Knowles
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And when he ran the blades over her she felt light as a feather, floating happily into that place where pain and pleasure walked hand in hand, fully clear and conscious and she looked out to the darkness that lay outside of their artificial day. All too soon it was gone, her vision dimming and her breaths evening as she found somewhere darker which centred around the golden light of her Master’s voice as he spoke to her. Astrid Knowles
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She saw the shallow lines beaded with blood in her long mirror, and when he told her that she was beautiful, she believed him. Astrid Knowles