Main quotes and themes in The Bloody Chamber and Dracula

The Bloody Chamber:

• "like the door of hell" - TBC
• "His curling mane was disordered" - TBC
• "witnesses the revolt of his pawns" - TBC
• "it spares my shame" - TBC
• "The lamb must learn to run with the tigers" - TTB
• "white meat" - TTB
• "my beautiful fur" - TTB
• "I shall strangle him with them" - TEK
• "let the birds free; they will change back into young girls" - TEK
• "the girl began to melt" - TSC
• "she catches the scent of her prey" - TLOTHOL
• "How can she bear the pain of becoming human?" - TLOTHOL
• "it was no longer a wolf's paw. It was a hand" - TW
• "In the mirror, she saw how this white dress made her shine" - W-A

Dracula:

• "what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man?"
• "Count go out in his lizard fashion"
• "Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her"
• "Lucy Westnra, but yet how changed. The sweetness turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness."
• "driving deeper and deeper the mercy bearing stake"

The Bloody Chamber:

• "I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption that took my breath away."
• "I began to shudder... I felt both a strange, impersonal arousal at the thought of love and at the same time a repugnance"
• "the one who had inflicted the pain could comfort me"
• "I longed for him. And he disgusted me."
• "my desirous dread"
• "embraces were annihilation"
• "the dead lips smiled"
• "'Decapitation,' he whispered, almost voluptuously"
• "'He will lick the skin off me!"
• "you sink your teeth into my throat and make me scream"
• "His touch both consoles and devastates me"
• "thrust his virile member into the dead girl"
• "Her huge dark eyes almost broke his heart... yet he was disturbed, almost repelled, by her extraordinarily fleshy mouth"
• "We shall turn her into the lovely girl she is; I shall cure her of all these nightmares"

Dracula:

• "There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fear."
• "I fear it was no dream" 
• "lured away by the 'bloofer lady'."
• "we could see that the lips were crimson with fresh blood, and that the stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death-robe"
• "the child that up to now she had clutched strenuously to her chest" 
• "forcing her face down on his bosom. Her white nightdress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare breast"
• "She lay in her Vampire sleep, so full of life and voluptuous beauty that I shudder as though I have come to do murder"
• "paralyse my faculties and to clog my very soul"

The Bloody Chamber:

• "join this gallery of beautiful women"
• "ritual from the brothel"
• "purchaser unwrapped his bargain"
• "closed my legs like a book"
• "his *****, that curved upwards like the scimitar he held"
• "the **** of the Sabines"
• "skin was my sole capital"
• "pretty young lady unclothed"
• "the eyes that watch you take no account of your existence"
• "the price of flesh is love"
• "the girl began to melt"

Dracula: 

• "I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips."
• "stained the purity of her lawn death-robe"
  
• "driving deeper and deeper the mercy bearing stake, whilst blood from the pierced heart welled and spurted around it"
  
• "Her white nightdress was smeared with blood"

The Bloody Chamber:

• "his kiss with tongue and teeth"
• "garment of heavy water"
• "funeral lilies"
• "a red ribbon like the memory of a wound"
• "the bloody bandage of rubies"
• "tears hanging on her cheeks like stuck pearls"
• "A dozen husbands impaled a dozen brides"
• "I had bled"
• "the one who had inflicted pain could comfort me"
• "the **** of the Sabines"
• "lovers who embraces were annihilation"
• "She was pierced, not by one but by a hundred spikes"
• "his game of love and death"
• "his rose all smeared with blood"
• "marvellous wound"
• "in which his appetite need not be my extinction"

• "clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me"
• "I shall strangle him with them"
• "pricks her finger on the thorn; bleeds; screams; falls"
• "blood-stained lace"
• "hunger always overcomes her"
• "The blood on the Countess's cheeks will be mixed with tears"
• "he puts his mouth to the wound. He will kiss it better for her"
• "The end of exile is the end of being"

Dracula:

• "the hard dents of two sharp teeth... I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy"
• "He looked like a figure of Thor as his untrembling arm rose and fell, driving deeper and deeper the mercy bearing stake, whilst the blood from the pierced heart welled and spurted up around it"
• "his right hand  gripped her by the back of the neck, forcing her face down on his bosom"
• "Her white nightdress was smeared with blood"

The Bloody Chamber:

• "nudging between my thighs"
• "kinks of the plaits from which it had so recently been freed"
• "potentiality for corruption that took my breath away"
• "amniotic salinity"
• "her **** a split fig"
• "I was not afraid of him; but of myself"
• "I took the key from the heap"
• "the **** of the Sabines"
• "sharp as childbirth"
• "it spares my shame"
• "I felt I was at liberty for the first time in my life"
• "clockwork twin of mine" ---> "perform the part of my father's daughter"
• "white meat"
• "his appetite need not be my extinction"
• "He was far more afraid of me than I was of him"
• "everything will disintegrate"

• "trapped in her own illusion because everything in the wood is exactly as it seems"
• "the pretty wedding rings round their necks"
• "the sweetest singers he will keep in cages"
• "the branches of which the trap itself was woven"
• "'Mother, mothers, you have murdered me!'"
• "she catches the scent of her prey"
• "wolves are less brave than they seem"
• "Now the child lived in her grandmother's house; she prospered"
• "she is not a wolf herself; although ****led by wolves"
• "a wolf... must have nibbled her **** while she was sleeping"
• "her relation with the mirror was now far more intimate since she knew she saw herself within it"
• "finally, the face of the Duke"

Dracula:

• Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her"
• "those awful women, who were - who are wanting to **** my blood"
• "Lucy, although she is so well, has lately taken to her old habit of walking in her sleep"

• "But I suppose the New Woman won't condescend in future to accept; she will do the proposing herself"
• "'A brave man's blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble."
• "I have type-written out my own journal"
  
• "but that there are good women still left to make life happy - good women, whose lives and whose truths may make good lesson for the children that are to be"
  
• "This stake must be driven through her"
• "She has a man's brain - a brain a man should have were he much gifted - and a woman's heart"
• "Unclean! Unclean! Even the Almighty shuns my polluted flesh! I must bear this mark of shame upon my forehead until the Judgement Day!"
• "See! the snow is not more stainless than her forehead!"
• "This boy will some day know what a brave and gallant woman his mother is."

The Bloody Chamber:

• "a red ribbon like the memory of a wound"
• "I had bled"
• "I could no longer hear the sound of the sea"
• "like the door of hell"
• "'It will all fall, everything will disintegrate'"
• "Erl-King tore out his heart"
• "this hole is filled with blood"
• "a bloodstain"
• "a white neglige stained a little with blood"
• "She has never seen her own blood before, not her own blood"
• "Her first blood bewildered her."

Dracula:

• "When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demonic fury"
• "those awful women, who were - who are wanting to **** my blood."

• "Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonourable peace"
• "She wants blood and blood she must have or die"
• "'The blood is the life! the blood is the life!'"
• "the blood from the pierced heart welled and spurted up around it."
• "Her white nightdress was smeared with blood"