Lady of the House of Love revision quotations
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- Lady of the House of Love
- Sexuality
- "a white neglige stained a little with blood"
- "blonde, blue-eyed"
- "he has the special quality of virginity"
- "To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears"
- "power in potentia"
- "And I leave you as a souvenir the dark, fanged rose I plucked from between my thighs"
- Fairy tale references
- "Fee fi fo fum I smell the blood of an Englishman"
- "Be he alive or be he dead I'll grind his bones to make my bread"
- "A single kiss woke up the Sleeping Beauty in the wood"
- "curiouser and curiouser"
- Setting
- "melodramatically creaking hinges"
- "at last the revenants became so troublesome the peasants abandoned the village..."
- "now you are at the place of annihiliation, now you are at the place of annihiliation"
- "industrious spiders have woven canopies"
- "black satin"
- "burial ground"
- "Too many roses"
- "how thin and cheap the satin, the catafalque not ebony at all but black-painted paper stretched on struts of wood, as in the theatre"
- the Vampire
- "the beautiful queen of the vampires"
- "her voice is filled with distant sonorities"
- "her hair falls down like tears"
- "she likes to hear it announce how it cannot escape"
- "her beauty is a symptom of her disorder"
- "queen of night, queen of terror"
- "her life or imitation of life"
- "But now she is a woman, she must have men"
- "chatters distractedly to put them at their fatal ease"
- "When she takes them by the hand and leads them to her bedroom, they can scarcely believe their luck"
- "stark white face"
- "whore's mouth"
- Change
- "inevitable tarot"
- "Can a bird sing only the song it knows, or can it learn a new song?"
- "Next day, his regiment embarked for France"
- Sexuality
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