Quotessence
Home / Topics / The Bloody Chamber Quotes

The Bloody Chamber Quotes

Browse 4 quotes about The Bloody Chamber.

The Bloody Chamber Quotes

“Wearing an antique bridal gown, the beautiful queen of the vampires sits all alone in her dark, high house under the eyes of the portraits of her demented and atrocious ancestors, each one of whom, through her, projects a baleful posthumous existence; she counts out the Tarot cards, ceaselessly construing a constellation of possibilities as if the random fall of the cards on the red plush tablecloth before her could precipitate her from her chill, shuttered room into a country of perpetual summer and obliterate the perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden.”

SadnessLonelinessVampireThe Lady Of The House Of LoveThe Bloody ChamberDeath And The Maiden
Book:The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories
Create image

“Yet I had not bargained for this, the girl with tears hanging on her cheeks like stuck pearls, her cunt a split fig below the great globes of her buttocks on which the knotted tails of the cat were about to descend, while a man in a black mask fingered with his free hand his prick, that curved upwards like a scimitar he held. The picture had a caption 'Reproof of curiosity.”

SadismWarning SignsInnocence And ExperienceThe Bloody ChamberFictional Steel Engravings
Book:The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories
Create image