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Quotes in the
Bloody Chamber 2
- The Erl-King
- The trees stir like the taffeta
skirts of women who have lost
themselves in the woods and
hunt round hopelessly for the
way out
- Erl-King will do
you grievious
harm
- the Erl-king
lives by himself
all alone in the
heart of the
wood
- How cruel is it, to
keep wild birds in
cages!
- He is the
tender butcher
- That was the way i
walked into the bird
haunted solitude of
the Erl-King
- then she will open all the
cages; and let the birds
free; they will change
back into young girls
- The Lady of the House of Love
- Wearing an antique
bridal gown, the
beautiful queen of the
vampires sits all alone
in her dark, high house
- Closely barred
shutters and
heavy velvet
curtains keep out
every leak of
natural light
- depredations of rot and fungus
everywhere
- Her beauty is
an
abnormality, a
deformity
- She
herself is
a haunted
house
- the end of exile is the
end of being
- how can she bear the pain
of becoming human?
- In death, she looked far
older, less beautiful and
so, for the first time, fully
human
- The Werewolf
- the devil is as real as
you or i
- wreaths of garlic on the
doors keep out the
vampires
- when they discover a witch;some old
woman whos cheeses ripen when her
neighbours do not
- by the wart, she knew it for
her grandmothers hand
- they pelted her with
stones until she fell
down dead
- she began to struggle,
squawking and
shrieking like a thing
posessed
- The Company Of Wolves
- the wolf is carnivore incarnate, (like the devil!)
and he's as cunning as he is
ferocious
- the wolf is the worst for he
cannot listen to reason
- Before he can become a wolf,
the lyycanthrope strips stark
naked.If you spy a naked man
among the pines, you mus run
as if the devil were after you
- "I wish i were a
wolf again to teach
this whore a
lesson!" So a wolf
he instantly
became
- she wept and
her second
husband beat
her
- the grandmother
'had knitted her the
red shawl that, today,
has the ominous if
brilliant look of blood
on snow
- shawl was 'as red as the
blood she must spill' virginity
lost
- took off her scarlet shawl 'the colour of
sacrifices, the colour of her menses'
- she stands and moves
within the invisible
pentacle of her own
virginity
- she is an
unbroken egg- a
sealed vessel
- fear did her no good, so
she ceased to be afraid
- sweet and sound she
sleeps in grannys bed,
between the paws of the
tender wolf
- the tick of the clock
cracked like a whip
(coming of age and
running out of time
with wolf)
- the forest
closed upon
her like a pair
of jaws
- he laughed with a
flash of white teeth
- there is a faint
trace of blood on
his chin; he has
been snacking on
his catch
- Wolf Alice
- her red lips are
thick and lush
- nothing about her is
human, except she is
NOT a wolf
- like the wild
beasts, she
lives without a
future
- he lives in a gloomy mansion, all
alone but for this child who has as
little in common with the rest of us
as he does
- at night, those huge inconsolable
rapacious eyes of his are eaten up
by swollen, gleaming pupil
- her first
blood
bewildered
her
- she bruised her nuzzle on the
cold glass, and broke her paws
trying to tussle with this
stranger
- he believes
himself to be
less and more
than a man