Bloody Chamber Collection Key Quotes
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The Bloody Chamber
Sex/Virginity
-"I had ceased to be her daughter in becoming his wife".
-"The lillies that I associate with him are white and stain you"
-"My little nun has found the prayer books"
-"We do not hang the bloody sheets to prove you are a virgin"
-"It was my innocence that captivated him"
-"Did it hurt her? He's so sorry for it"
The Bloody Chamber
Setting
-"November.. the trees stunted by atlantic gales"
-"A home neither on land or water... a mysterious place"
-"Absolute darkness, and around me the instruments of mutilation"
-"Castle of murder"
-"a winding corridor"
The Bloody Chamber
Relationships
-"When I thought of courage I thought of my mother"
-"Every man must have a secret"
-"I was too deluded by his apparent taste for me"
-"Let the blind lead the blind"
-"My lover would not let me die"
-"Are you sure you love him?"... "I'm sure I want to marry him"
The Bloody Chamber
Transgression
-"Shall I come up to heaven and fetch you down?... You wicked woman".
-"I was seventeen and knew nothing of the world".
-"I saw myself as I could wish to be".
-"Perhaps I thought my own particular magic might save me... give me the power to free myself from him."
-"A potential for corruption".
The Bloody Chamber
Classic Gothic Features
-"I only did what he knew I would".
-"so grotesque, a carnival head".
-"This child of the land of vampires"
-"The atrocious lonliness of that monster".
-"The mark of Cain".
-"Mirrors... that reflected more white lillies than I've seen in my life before".
-"Imagine myself the queen of the sea".
-"Of her apparel, she retains only her sonorous jewellery".
-"Those blazing rubies".
The Tiger's Bride
Sex/Virginity
-"I was a virgin, and therefore men deprived me rationality".
-"I lost my pearl... my pearl beyond price".
-"When I break off the stem, I ***** my finger so his rose gets all smeared with blood".
-"I wish I'd rolled in the hay every lad on my father's farm".
-"Take my clothes off for you, like a ballet girl, is that all you want of me?".
-"The sight of a young lady's skin that no man has ever seen before".
The Tiger's Bride
Setting
-"It was a world in itself, but it was a dead one".
-"So still with winter that it hardly seemed to flow"
-"We are at war with nature".
The Tiger's Bride
Relationships
-"She soon died of his whoring, his agonizing repentances".
-"You must not think he valued me at any less than a king's ransom".
-"The beast had wanted very little compared to what I was willing to give him".
-"He will you gobble you up".
-"He was far more frightened of me than I was of him".
The Tiger's Bride
Transgression
-"The tiger will never lie down with the lamb.. the lamb must learn to run with the tigers".
-"I was a wild wee thing".
-"I shurgged the drops off my beautiful fur".
-"I could see not one soul in that wilderness of desolation... insubstantial things".
The Tiger's Bride
Typical Gothic Features
-"we owned the fireworks of the northern lights".
-"he is a carnival figure made of papier mache".
-"my fathers soul was in peril".
-"The masked, immense one".
The Courtship of Mr Lyon
Sex/Virginity
-"White roses".
-"Her face was acquiring, instead of beauty, a lacquer of the invincible prettiness that characterizes certain, pampered cats".
-"roses, as if this year they wouldn't bloom".
The Courtship of Mr Lyon
Setting
-"spilled bolt of bridal satin".
-"the nature of the moon and it's borrwed light, about the stars and the substances of which they were made".
-"It seemed December still possessed his garden".
The Courtship of Mr Lyon
Relationships
-"she would have gone to the ends of the earth for her father".
-"she could not bring herself to touch him of her own free will".
-"Mr & Mrs Lyon" - she takes his surname.
-"If you'll have me I'll never leave you".
The Courtship of Mr Lyon
Transgression
-"When the sky darkened towards the evening".
-"She experienced a sudden sense of perfect freedom".
-"All the natural laws of the world were held in suspension".
The Courtship of Mr Lyon
Typical Gothic Features
-He was irradiated, as if with a kind of halo, and she thought of the great beast of the apocalypse".
-"with an indescribable shock he went on all fours".
-"A collection of French fairytales about white cats who were transformed princesses and fairies who were birds".
-"The enchantment of that bright, sad, pretty place enveloped her and she found that, against all her expectations, she was happy there".
-"and then it was no longer a lion in her arms but a man, a man with an unkempt mane of hair and a broken nose, such noses of retired boxers".
The Lady of the House of Love
Sex/ Virginity
-"now she is a woman, she must have men".
-"He has the special quality of virginity".
-"A white lace negligee, stained a little with blood".
-"A whore's mouth"
-"seductive"
-"She looked like a shipwrecked bride".
-"I will be very gentle".
-"See how I'm ready for you. I've always been ready for you".
The Lady of the House of Love
Setting
-"Too many shadows, even at midday".
-"Dark, high house".
-"All the roses her dead mother planted have grown into a huge, spiked wall that incarcerates her".
-"A single kiss woke up the sleeping beauty in the wood".
The Lady of the House of Love
Setting
-"Too many shadows, even at midday".
-"Dark, high house".
-"All the roses her dead mother planted have grown into a huge, spiked wall that incarcerates her".
-"A single kiss woke up the sleeping beauty in the wood".
The Lady of the House of Love
Relationships
-"Her huge dark eyes almost broke his heart".
-"his eyes roll back in a spasm you will mistake for love and not of death".
-"I shall cure her of these nightmares".
-"She is the hereditary commander of the army of shadows".
The Lady of the House of Love
Transgression
-"In her dream, she would like to be human".
-"Can a bird sing only the song it knows? Or can it learn a new song?".
-"She does not possess herself".
-"I was only an invention of darkness".
The Lady of the House of Love
Typical Gothic Features
-"cracked mirror that does not reflect a presence".
-"she is so beautiful she is unnatural".
-"curiouser and curiouser".
-"out of their whits with ghost stories".
-"she likes to hear it announce how it cannot escape".
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