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“Her beauty is a symptom of her disorder, of her soullessness.”
― 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
“On her eighteenth birthday, my mother had disposed of a man-eating tiger that had ravaged the villages in the hills north of Hanoi. Now, without a moment's hesitation, she raised my father's gun, took aim and put a single, irreproachable bullet through my husband's head.”
― 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
Elisabeth’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Elisabeth’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
538 books
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47 friends
132 books
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72 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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