The Bloody Chamber Flashcards
Away from Paris…
Away from Paris, away from girlhood, away from the white, enclosed quietude of my mother’s apartment, into the unguessable country of marriage.
When he put the gold…
When he put the gold band on my finger, I had, in some way, ceased to be her child in becoming his wife.
I’m in the….
I’m in the demoythologising business
I am all for putting…..
I am all for putting new wine in old bottles, especially if the pressure of the new wine makes the bottles explode
I am interested in myths [..]…
I am interested in myths [..] just because they are extraordinary lies designed to make people unfree
The monsters and princesses….
The monsters and princesses lose their places in the old scripts, and cross forbidden boundary lines
To be the object of desire….
To be the object of desire is to be defined in the passive case. To exist in the passive case is to die in the passive.
My dark….
My dark new born curiosity
One is not born….
One is not born a woman, one becomes one
Next in the fated….
Next in the dated sisterhood of his wives
The tiger will never lie….
The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers
She is a marvellous….
She is a marvellous machine, the most delicately balanced system of cords and pulleys in the world
Her musical box…
Her musical box ran down until the notes separated themselves out of tone
My nervous fingers….
My nervous fingers ripped, petal by petal
