“We keep the wolves outside by living well.”
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“He has the special quality of virginity, most and least ambiguous of states: ignorance, yet at the same time, power in potentia, and, furthermore, unknowingness, which is not the same as ignorance.”
― 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
“See! sweet and sound she sleeps in granny's bed, between the paws of the tender wolf.”
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future. She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous, a world of sensual immediacy as without hope as it is without despair.”
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
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