The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories - Quotations
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- The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
- The Bloody Chamber
- "ceased to be her child in becoming his wife."
- "his kiss with tongue and teeth in it and a rasp of beard"
- "leonine shape of his head"
- "dark mane"
- "invited me to join this gallery of beautiful women"
- "His wedding gift, clasped round my throat"
- "bright as arterial blood"
- "the assessing eye of a connoisseur inspecting horseflesh"
- "Into marriage, into exile"
- "as if he were ********* the leaves off an artichoke"
- "he approached his familiar treat with a weary appetite"
- "the child with her sticklike limbs"
- "bare as a lamb chop"
- "the lilies I always associate with him; that are white. And stain you."
- "All the better to see you."
- "one-sided struggle"
- "the puppet master... saw his dolls break free of their strings"
- The Courtship of Mr Lyon
- "whose skin possesses that same, inner light"
- "for a lion is a lion and a man is a man"
- "Miss Lamb, spotless, sacrificial."
- "possessed by a sense of obligation to an unusual degree"
- The Tiger's Bride
- "since I could toddle, always the pretty one"
- "I have lost my pearl, my pearl beyond price."
- "The lamb must learn to run with the tigers."
- "furious cynicism"
- "my skin was my sole capital in the world and today I'd make my first investment"
- The Erl-King
- "I always go to the Erl-King"
- "the wood swallows you up."
- "Erl-King will do you grievous harm."
- "There are some eyes can eat you."
- "tender butcher"
- "woodies with the pretty wedding rings round their necks"
- "the sweetest singers he will keep in cages"
- "your green eye is a reducing chamber"
- "my girlish and delicious loneliness"
- The Lady of the House of Love
- "under the eyes of the portraits of her demented and atrocious ancestors"
- "she herself is a cave full of echoes"
- "her beauty is an abnormality, a deformity"
- "a ventriloquist's doll"
- The Werewolf
- "take your father's hunting knife, you know how to use it"
- "shabby coat of sheepskin"
- "wolves are less brave than they seem"
- "she prospered"
- The Company of Wolves
- "if you spy a naked man you must run as if the devil were after you"
- "The girl burst out laughing; she knew she was nobody's meat"
- "his torso is a man's but his legs and genitals are a wolf's"
- "she knew the worst wolves are hairy on the inside"
- "the wolf may be more than he seems"
- Wolf-Alice
- "licked without hesitation
- "nothing about her is human except for the fact that she is not a wolf"
- "this white dress made her shine"
- "her first blood bewildered her"
- The Bloody Chamber
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