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“There is a vast melancholy in the canticles of the wolves, melancholy infinite as the forest, endless as these long nights of winter and yet that ghastly sadness, that mourning for their own, irremediable appetites, can never move the heart for not one phrase in it hints at the possibility of redemption.”
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“The lilies i always associate with him; that are white. And stain you.”
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“Her voice is filled with distant sonorities, like reverberations in a cave: now you are at the place of annihilation, now you are at the place of annihilation. And she is herself a cave full of echoes, she is a system of repetitions, she is a closed circuit.”
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“We keep the wolves outside by living well.”
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“Yet I had not bargained for this, the girl with tears hanging on her cheeks like stuck pearls, her cunt a split fig below the great globes of her buttocks on which the knotted tails of the cat were about to descend, while a man in a black mask fingered with his free hand his prick, that curved upwards like a scimitar he held. The picture had a caption 'Reproof of curiosity.”
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Elisabeth’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Elisabeth’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
141 books
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72 friends
551 books
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47 friends
31 books
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29 friends
65 books
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33 friends
10 books
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30 friends
51 books
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26 friends
1 book
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56 friends
5 books
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31 friends
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