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SENTENCE MEME ⟶ THE BLOODY CHAMBER AND OTHER STORIES - Angela Carter / Part One always feel free to tweak the sentence to fit your muse.

‘are you sure you love him?’

‘my mother herself had gladly, scandalously, defiantly beggared herself for love.’

‘opals are bad luck.’

‘i swear to you, i had never been vain until i met him.’

‘all the better to see you.’

‘i clung to him as though the one who had inflicted the pain could comfort me for suffering it.’

‘but it is our honeymoon!’

‘i was only a little girl, i did not understand.’

‘i was not afraid of him; but of myself.’

‘what is that key? the key to your heart?’

‘every man must have one secret, even if only one, from his wife.’

‘you must promise me, if you love me, to leave it well alone.’

‘i longed for him. and he disgusted me.’

‘i have gold bath taps.’

‘i suppose that’s nothing to cry about.’

‘there must be a great deal to conceal if he takes such pains to hide it.’

‘is he not rich enough to do without crime?’

‘the supreme and unique pleasure of love is the certainty that one is doing evil.’

‘there is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.’

‘it was his tender look that made me faint.’

‘oh, god. i can smell the blood.’

‘we whisper all manner of strange tales up and down the coast. there was a marquis, once, who used to hunt young girls on the mainland.’

‘he hunted them with dogs, as though they were foxes.’

‘i thought all these were old wives’ tales.’

‘the old name for this place is the castle of murder.’

‘it must be near morning, the tide is going down.’

‘i must pay the price of my new knowledge.’

‘can’t it wait until morning, my darling?’

‘i would have strangled him.’

‘i could expect no mercy.’

‘it is the key that leads to the kingdom of the unimaginable.’

‘you’ll never know how much i hate daylight.’

‘prepare yourself for martyrdom.’

‘we shall have absolute privacy for our last rites.’

‘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.’

‘let the blind lead the blind, eh?’

‘do not fear that in death you shall be divided.’

‘i never heard you cry before.’

‘the snow brought down all the telephone wires.’

‘the roads are bad. i hope he’ll be safe.’

‘the very rich are often very eccentric.’

‘forgive me for robbing your garden.’

‘it will be lonely here, without you.’

‘since you left me, i have been sick.’

‘i am sick and i must die; but i shall die happy because you have come to say good-bye to me.’

‘if you’ll have me, i’ll never leave you.’

‘there’s a special madness strikes travellers from the north when they reach the lovely land where the lemon trees grow.’

‘what a burden all those possessions must have been to him.’

‘he laughs as if with glee as he beggars himself.’

‘they used to hang condemned men in cages from the city walls.’

‘unkindness comes naturally to them.’

‘what can he smell of, that needs so much camouflage?’

‘i never saw a man so big look so two-dimensional.’

‘he wears as mask with a man’s face painted most beautifully on it.’

‘he is a carnival figure made of papier mâché and crêpe hair; and yet he has the devil’s knack at cards.’

‘gambling is a sickness.’

‘my father said he loved me get he staked his daughter on a hand of cards.’

‘my father, of course, believed in miracles; what gambler does not?’

‘if you are so careless of your treasures, you should expect them to be taken from you.’

‘he bought solitude, not luxury, with his money.’

‘i shall twist a noose out of my bed linen and hang myself with it.’

‘nothing human lives here.’

‘she is a marvellous machine.’

‘take off my clothes for you, like a ballet girl? is that all you want of me?’

‘i wish i’d rolled in the hay with every lad on my father’s farm.’

‘if you have enough money, anything is possible.’

‘the tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal.’

‘nothing about him reminded me of humanity.’

me  🤝  wendy

deep attraction to sailor types