The Snow Child quotes

The Snow Child by Angela Carter - published in The Bloody Chamber in 1979

"Midwinter - invinsible, immaculate"

"a raven, perched on a bare bough"

"this hole is filled with blood"

"the ice of a frozen pond"

"a bloodstain, like the trace of a fox's kill on the snow"

"roses, all in flower"

"the whole world was white"

"she was the child of his desire and the countess hated her"

"stark naked"

"weeping, the count unfastened…