Quotations to learn; Bloody Chamber

"in some way, ceased to be her [mother's] child in becoming a wife."

"I'm sure I want to marry him."

"absolute absence of light."

"The poor widow's child wit my mouse coloured hair that still bore the kinks of the braids that had so recently been freed, my bony hips, my nervous, pianist's fingers"

"a choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit…