tbc quotes Flashcards
TBC- i sensed
in myself a potentiality for corruption
TBC- i saw
him watching me in the gilded mirror
TBC- he closed
my legs like a book
TBC- the lilies
i always associate with him; they are white and stain you
TBC- my little nun
has found the books
TBC- a dozen
husbands impaled a dozen brides
TBC- and i longed
for him, and he disgusted me
TBC- the dead
lips smiled
TBC- her hair was
her white mane
TBC- no paint or powder,
no matter how thick or white, can mask that red mark on my forehead, i am glad he cannot see it… it spares my shame
TCOML- This lovely girl
you would have thought she, too, was made all of snow
TCOML- Miss lamb
spotless, sacrificial
TCOML-do not think
she had no will of her own
TCOML- who looked
as if she had been carved out of a single pearl
TCOML- you will come
back to me? it will belonely without you
TCOML- she smiled
at herself with satisfaction… spoiled brat
TCOML- covered his
paws with her kisses
TCOML- the roses
she had sent him… were all desd
Mr and Mrs Lyon
walk in the garden…in a drift of fallen petals
TTB- my fathers
lost me to the beats at cards
TTB- one single
tear swelled, glittering… a tear! i hoped, of shame!
TTB-my skin
was my soul capital
TTB- the palace…
uninhabited place
TTB- he went
still as a stone. he was more frightened of me than i was of him
TTB- each stroke
of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin… and left behind… shining hair