bloody chamber collection key quotes

The train that bore me through the night

The Bloody Chamber

ceased to be her child in becoming his wife

The Bloody Chamber

Have the nasty pictures scared baby?

The Bloody Chamber

The other clasped my father's service revolver

The Bloody Chamber

'Behind wrought iron gates'

The Courtship of Mr Lyon

How could his host, so mysterious, so kind, deny Beauty her present

The Courtship of Mr Lyon

You will come back to me

The Courtship of Mr Lyon

Since you left me, I have been sick

The Courtship of Mr Lyon

And then it was no longer a lion in her arms, but a man

The Courtship of Mr Lyon

My father lost me to The Beast at cards

The Tiger's Bride

My father said he loved me yet he staked his daughter on a hand of cards

The Tigers Bride

The Beast's hereditary palazzo outside the city

The Tiger's Bride

A cell had been prepared for me

The Tiger's Bride

The sight of a young lady's skin that no man has seen before

The Tiger's Bride

The trees stir with a noise like taffeta skirts of women who have lost themselves in the wood

The Erl-King

He is an excellent housewife

The Erl-King

He could thrust me into the seed-bed of next year's generation

The Erl-King

Your green eye is a reducing chamber

The Erl-King

Mother, mother, you have murdered me!

The Erl-King

Fresh snow fell on snow already fallen

The Snow Child

I wish I had a girl as white as snowI wish I had a girl as red as bloodI wish I had a girl as black as that birds feather

The Snow Child

So the girl picks a rose; pricks her finger on the thorn; bleeds; screams; falls

The Snow Child

it bites

The Snow Child

Her beauty is an abnormality, a deformity

The Lady of the House of Love

In her dream, she would like to be human; but she does not know if that is possible

The Lady of the House of Love

He has the special quality of virginity

The Lady of the House of Love

She likes to hear it announce how it cannot escape

The Lady of the House of Love

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The Werewolf

The child wiped the blade of her knife clean with an apron

The Werewolf

The child lived in her grandmother's house; she prospered

The Werewolf

Seven years is a werewolf's natural span but if you burn his human clothing you condemn him to wolfishness for the rest of his life

The Company of Wolves

She is an unbroken egg; she is a sealed vessel

The Company of Wolves

She will lay his fearful head on her lap and she will pick out the lice from his pelt and perhaps she will put the lice into her mouth and eat them, as he will bid her, as she would in a savage wedding ceremony

The Company of Wolves

she is not a wolf

Wolf-Alice

howls like a wolf with his foot in a trap or a woman in labour, and bleeds

Wolf- Alice

She kept upon his bed to lick, without hesitation,without disgust

Wolf-Alice