The Bloody Chamber- Quotes
- Created by: Smellers
- Created on: 06-05-15 15:22
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- The Bloody Chamber
- There were streaks of pure silver in his dark man
- He seemed like a lily
- Opals are bad luck... every bride that came to the castle wore it
- I was seventeen and knew nothing of the world
- Into marriage, into exile
- His castle that lay on the very bosom of the sea
- Cut off from land for half a day
- He stripped me as if he were ********* the leaves off an artichoke
- Anticipation is the greater part of please
- If I rang for them a maid would bring me chocolates
- I was innocent but not naive
- My little nun has found the prayer books
- Of her apparel she retains only her sonorous jewellery
- A dozen husbands impales a dozen brides
- It must have been my innocent that captured him
- And I longed for him. And he disgusted me
- No room, no corridor that did not rustle with the sound of the sea
- With the gargoyles carved on its surfaces of ebony... gold leaf
- And so my purchaser unwrapped his bargain
- The lilies I always associate with him; that are white. And stain you
- Filled my room with lilies until it looked like an embalming palour
- The girl with tears hanging on her cheeks like stuck pearls
- The sign of a ruptured virginity
- I was not afraid of him, but of myself
- And I longed for him. And he disgusted me
- This lovely prison of which I was both the inmate and the mistress
- Nothing in my life of family love and music had prepared me for these grown up games
- There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer
- It seemed a garment of that innocence for which he had lusted after fell away from me
- A skull so utterly denuded of flesh that it scarcely seemed possible... once been richly upholstered with life
- This child of the land of vampires
- Any bride brought to this castle should come dressed in mourning
- My virgin of the arpreggios, prepare yourself for martyrdom
- I shall grow hungrier, more ravenous, more cruel
- Put a single, irreproachable bullet through my husband's head
- Who ever cried because of gold bath taps?
- Neither paint nor powder, no matter how thick nor white can mask that red mark on my forehead
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