"The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories" Quotes
A collection of dark and feminist retellings of classic fairy tales.
short stories | 128 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
My father lost me to The Beast at cards.
Nothing is a secret once you tell anyone.
The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
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.
His aspect, though it reeked of death, was the aspect of youth.
He had a face that could charm the birds off the trees.
The only way to avoid punishment is to avoid sin.
And the dead, too, had their own eyes in which to see the world.
In the eye of the beholder, the beauty of the beast.
All the better to hear you with.
