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“Lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero”
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“He strips me of my last nakedness, that underskin of mauve, pearlized satin, like a skinned rabbit; then dresses me again in an embrace so lucid and encompassing it might be made of water. And shakes over me dead leaves as if into the stream I have become.”
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“To everyone harboring their own fire and to everyone lost in the dark. May you see the sun again.”
― The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures
― The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures
“She has no mouth with which to kiss, no hands with which to caress, only the fangs and talons of a beast of prey”
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“Her hair falls down like tears”
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
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