the bloody chamber | book quote starters
feel free to change pronouns as preferred. warnings for mentions of death, violence, torture.
she herself is a haunted house.
there is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.
we smile and smile and so they think we’re villains.
she does not know how to shiver.
my spite was sharp as broken glass.
sometimes the birds, at random, all singing, strike a chord.
i should like to grow enormously small, so that you could swallow me.
we are like two halves of a seed.
they have no respect for us: why should they?
yet wild things have a far more rational fear of us than is ours of them.
the end of exile is the end of being.
he has the special quality of virginity.
my father lost me to the beast at cards.
they say you might easily find him, if you had been foolish enough to venture out late.
if you stuff a corpse with garlic, why, he only slavers at the treat: cadavre provençale.
if you stray from the path for one instant, the wolves will eat you.
they are as unkind as plague.
we are at war with nature.
but then the snow comes, you cannot escape it.
i was not afraid of him, but of myself.
you will come back to me? it will be lonely here, without you.
i will come back. soon, before the winter is over.
if you’ll have me, i’ll never leave you.
it’s not a doctor you want, it’s an undertaker.
she has not eaten in three days.
all the better to eat you with.
i was only a little girl, i did not understand.
since you left me, i have been sick.
i could not tell whether it was day or night.
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