The Bloody Chamber Quotes - Sexuality and Violence

'tender, delicious ecstasy' 'burning cheek' 'pounding' 'thrusting the train'

The Bloody Chamber

'young girl's pointed breasts' 'teasingly caressed me, egregious, insinuating, nudging'

The Bloody Chamber

'Oh! How he must want me!'

The Bloody Chamber

'A choker of rubies... extraordinarily precious slit throat'

The Bloody Chamber

'Watched a dozen husbands approach me in a dozen mirrors and slowly, methodically, teasingly, unfasten the buttons of my jacket and slip it'

The Bloody Chamber

'We should have a formal disrobing of the bride, a ritual from the brothel'

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'i shivered to think of that'

The Bloody Chamber

'Then he kissed me... with no reticence'

The Bloody Chamber

'laid his hand imperatively upon my breast'

The Bloody Chamber

'A dozen husbands impaled a dozen brides'

The Bloody Chamber

'With the most treacherous, lascivious tenderness, he kissed my eyes, and, mimicking the new bride newly awakened'

The Bloody Chamber

'roast beef, still bloody'

The Courtship of Mr Lyon

'the great paws... the death of any tender herbivore'

The Courtship of Mr Lyon

'hot breath'

The Courtship of Mr Lyon

'rough lapping of his tongue'

The Courtship of Mr Lyon

'stiff bristles of his muzzle grazing her skin'

The Courtship of Mr Lyon

'I felt my breast ripped apart as if I suffered a marvellous wound'

The Tiger's Bride

'I showed his grave silence my white skin, my red nipples'

The Tiger's Bride

'courteously curious as to the fleshy nature of women'

The Tiger's Bride

'I felt as much atrocious pain as if I was stripping off my own underpelt and the smiling girl stood poised in the oblivion of her balked simulation fo life'

The Tiger's Bride

'A tremendous throbbing'

The Tiger's Bride

'Then a tongue, abrasive as sandpaper'

The Tiger's Bride

'He will lick the skin off me!'

The Tiger's Bride

'And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin'

The Tiger's Bride

'staining, ominous marks...left on the sheets by dead lovers'

The Lady of the House of Love

'she bit into their necks with a nauseated voluptuousness'

The Lady of the House of Love

'she sinks her teeth into them...with fear'

The Lady of the House of Love

'she...the first time...dealt herself a hand of love and death'

The Lady of the House of Love

'the most seductively caressing voice'

The Lady of the House of Love

'the hectic, unhealthy beauty of a consumptive'

The Lady of the House of Love

'I will be very gentle'

The Lady of the House of Love

'You will feel no pain my darling'

The Lady of the House of Love

'It is dinner-time. It is bed-time'

The Lady of the House of Love

'the candles around her sacrificial altar'

The Lady of the House of Love

'you will mistake for that of love and not of death'

The Lady of the House of Love

'that breathes lasciviously of forbidden pleasures'

The Lady of the House of Love