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“the skull
was still so
beautiful”
The Bloody
Chamber
“how could you
know... this place
is the Castle of
Murder?”
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Muse’s
“skeletal,
enigmatic
grace”
“I was
seventeen and
knew nothing
of the world
“I’m sure I
want to marry
him” not love
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“hair that still
bore the kinks
of the plaits”
freed from.
“My heart swelled
and ached so during
the Liebestod that I
thought I must
truly love him.”
“Yes. I did. On
his arm, all
eyes were
upon me.”
“I thought: My
cup runneth
over”
“everyone
stared at me.
And at his
wedding gift.”
“A choker of
rubies... like an
extraordinarily
precious slit
throat”
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“That night at
the opera comes
back to me
even now...”
Marquis “eye of
a connoisseur
inspecting
horseflesh”
“I sensed in myself
a potentiality for
corruption that
took my breath
away”
“The next
day, we were
married”
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“Into marriage,
into exile”
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“I drew my
furs about me”
“I swear to you,
I had never
been vain until
I met him”
“the line, of
course, was dead.
Dead as his
wives.”
Castle “faery
solitude”
“turrets of
misty blue”
“That lovely,
sad, sea-siren
of a place!”
“black
fringes of his
beard”
Blessing in Breton
“That I did not
understand. That
he, smiling, refused
to interpret.”
“Enough! No;
more!”
Lilies “that
are white.
And stain
you.”
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“Have the
nasty
pictures
scared Baby?”
“A dozen
husbands
impaled a
dozen brides”
Virginity “my
innocence that
captivated him”
“unknowingness”
“Yes. Of course, I
said. Certainly.
He seemed to
know that I had
smiled.”
“striking
resemblance between
the act of love and
the ministrations of a torturer”
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