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THE BLOODY CHAMBER

Below you will find quotes taken directly or paraphrased
from the book 'The Bloody Chamber' by Angela Carter. Feel free to change or switch around pronouns.
  • Are you sure you love him?
  • I’m sure I want to marry him.
  • See? I have acquired a whole harem for myself!
  • My little nun has found the prayer books, has she?
  • Have the nasty pictures scared, Baby?
  • Baby mustn’t play with grownups’ toys until she’s learned how to handle them, must she?
  • But it is our honeymoon!
  • What is that key? The key to your heart? Give it to me!
  • Every man must have one secret, even if only one, from his wife.
  • All is yours, everywhere is open to you - except the lock that this single key fits.
  • But you must promise me, if you love me, to leave it well alone.
  • There I can go, you understand, to savour the rare pleasure of imagining myself wifeless.
  • Some intuition told me that you couldn’t sleep and might, perhaps, pass the insomniac hours at your piano.
  • And that I could not resist.
  • No bride should suffer so much, so early in her marriage.
  • Any bride brought to this castle should come ready dressed in mourning.
  • Oh God, I can smell the blood.
  • We may resume our interrupted pleasures, my love.
  • Now? This moment? Can’t it wait until morning, my darling?
  • It is the key that leads to the kingdom of the unimaginable.
  • My little love, you’ll never know how much I hate daylight!
  • My virgin of the arpeggios, prepare yourself for martyrdom.
  • What form shall it take?
  • I can be of some comfort to you, though not much use.
  • You do not deserve this.
  • Who can say what I deserve or no? I’ve done nothing; but that may be sufficient reason for condemning me.
  • You disobeyed him. That is sufficient reason for him to punish you.
  • I only did what he knew I would.
  • Shall I come up to fetch you down, Saint Cecilia?
  • You wicked woman, do you wish me to compound my crimes by desecrating the marriage bed?
  • Do you think I shall lose appetite for the meal if you are so long about serving it? No; I shall grow hungrier, more ravenous with each moment, more cruel…
  • Run to me, run! I have a place prepared for your exquisite corpse in my display of flesh!
  • Good fellow? I am no good fellow!
  • So late! You will want to sleep.
  • I have come home.
  • Yes, my beauty! Gobble you up!
  • My master has but one desire.
  • If you wish to give me money, then I should be pleased to receive it.
  • However, if you choose not to give me a present, then that is your right.
  • I shall twist a noose out of my bed linen and hang myself with it.
  • Nothing human lives here.
  • All cats are cynics.
  • All good women have a missionary streak; convince her her orifice will be your salvation and she’s yours.
  • When I want your advice, I’ll ask for it.
  • Once you’re in her bedroom if you don’t know what to do, then I can’t help you.
  • Keep your foul thoughts to yourself.
  • I must and will have her forever!
  • I’m burning with the fever of love!
  • I shall steal her away from her husband to live with me.
  • What do you propose to live on?
  • I am sick and tired of your foul-mouthed barbs!
  • You read my thoughts, my love.
  • Do as I say and never mind the reason!
  • Dead, is he? Broke his neck, has he?
  • Mother, mother, you have murdered me!
  • Coffee, you must have coffee.
  • I rarely receive visitors and that’s a misfortune since nothing animates me half as much as the presence of strangers.
  • You have such a fine throat, like a column of marble.
  • I thought, perhaps, you might irradiate me.
  • I am condemned to solitude and dark; I do not meant to hurt you.
  • See, how I’m ready for you? I’ve always been ready for you.
  • You will feel no pain, my darling.
  • I will vanish in the morning light; I was only an invention of darkness.
  • Besides, aren’t you afraid of wolves?
  • Is it a bed? Shall we make a game of it?
  • What would you like?
  • There’s nobody here but we two, my darling?
  • I love the company of wolves.
  • Throw it on the fire, dear one. You won’t need it again.
  • What shall I do with my blouse?
  • What big eyes you have.
  • What big arms you have.
  • What big teeth you have!