Bloody Chamber key quotes

• a tender, delicious ________ __ ___________'

  ecstasy of excitement
• Into the ________ ________ of marriage'

  unguessable country
• A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an _______ _______ ___ _______'

  extraordinarily precious slit throat
• Into marriage, into ______.'


  exile
• I smelled the ________ _________ of the ocean'

  amniotic salinity
• The _________ _______________of the place'

  faery solitude
• And so my purchaser ____________ _____ __________'

  unwrapped his bargain
• A potentiality for _____________ that took my breath away''


  corruption
• Little museum of his __________'

  perversity
• His __________, ___________ humanity'

  lovely, blind
• I saw the heart-shaped stain had __________ _____________ __________ ________'

  transferred itself to my forehead
• Her skirts __________ _________ ____ __________, one hand on the reins...______________ _________ __ _ ________ _______ ______'

  'tucked round her waist' 'the other clasped my father's service revolver
• She raised my father's gun, took aim and put a _________________, __________ ______________ through my husband's head'

  single, irreproachable bullet
• Ruined, once: _________ _________ again'

  then ruined
• His _______, his ____-_____, his ___'

  'beauty' 'girl-child' 'pet
• Take her the rose then but ______ ___ __ ______'

  bring her to dinner
• The beast sunk his great head on to his paws. ____ ____ _____ ____ _____ ____? It will be lonely here'

  You will come back to me?
• Don't die Beast! __ ______ ____ ___ I'll never leave you!'


  If you'll have me
• And then it was no longer _ _____ in her arms, but _ ____'

  'a lion' 'a man
• Mr and Mrs Lyon walk in the garden, the ___ _______ drowses on the grass in a drift of fallen petals'

  old spaniel
• My father ____ ___ ___ the beast at cards'

  lost me to
• My father's expectations of ___________ ___________'

  perpetual pleasure
• But then the snow comes, ___ ______ ______ __, it followed us from Russia'


  you cannot escape it
• My mother did not blossom long... she soon died of ___ ________'

  his gambling
• He wears a mask with a man's face _______ ____ ____________ on it'


  painted most beautifully
• I have lost my pearl, my pearl _______ _____'

  beyond price
• My master's sole desire is to see the pretty young lady ________, ____, _______ ____ _____'

  unclothed, nude, without her dress
• a _________ cell'


  veritable
• The tiger will never ___ ____ _____ the lamb'

  lie down with
• The lamb ____ _____ ___ __ ___ with the tigers'

  must learn how to run
• Each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in this world, and left behind a ______ ______ __ _______ _____'

  nascent patina of shining hairs
• A princes in a tower..._________ __ _ ____ and dragon-guarded'

  chained to a dolt
• An aged hag, ___ _______, who grumps along grim as a prison dinner'


  her keeper
• They strip each other bare in a twinkling and she falls back on the bed, _____ ___ ___ _____, he displays the dart and scores an instant bullseye. Bravo!'

  shows him the target
• How rich is he?' '_______'

  Croesus
• It is easy to ____ _________ in these woods.'

  lose yourself
• His eyes are quite green, as if from ___ ____ ______ ___ __ _________...there are some eyes can eat you'


  too much looking at the wood
• A young girl would __ __ __ ___ ______ as Little Red Riding Hood to her granny's house'

  go in to the woods as trustingly
• He is an excellent __________'

  housewife
• He is the ______ _______ who showed me how the price of flesh is love'

  tender butcher