The Lady Of The House Of Love Flashcards
‘The countess will sniff the air and howl. She drops, now, on all fours. Crouching, quivering she catches the scent of her prey’
P110
‘The girl with the fragility of the skeleton of a moth’
P116
‘She looked like a shipwrecked bride’
P116
‘The beautiful queen of vampires sits all alone in her dark, high house’
‘The perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden’
‘And she is herself a cave full of echoes, she is a system of repetitions, she is a closed circuit’
‘Everything about this beautiful and ghastly lady is as it should be, queen of night, queen of terror- except her horrible reluctance for the role’
P110
‘Closely barred shutters and heavy velvet curtains keep out every leak of natural light’
‘All the roses her dead mother planted have grown up into a huge, spiked wall that incarcerates her in the castle of her inheritance’
‘Under the eyes of the portraits of her demented and atrocious ancestors’
‘The beautiful somnambulist helplessly perpetuates her ancestral crimes’
‘In death, she looked far older, less beautiful and so, for the first time, fully human’
‘Nauseated voluptuousness’
‘Her beauty is an abnormality, a deformity’
‘The most rational mode of transport’
‘And I leave you as a souvenir the dark, fanged rose I plucked from between my thighs, like a flower laid on a grave’
