The Bloody Chamber/ Dorian Gray family Flashcards
Quotes- Family (17 cards)
“An extraordinarily beautiful …”
“An extraordinarily beautiful girl … ran away with a penniless young fellow”
“The boy left to the …”
“The boy left to the tyranny of an old and loveless man”
“Had some strange poisonous …”
“Had some strange poisonous germ crept from body to body till it had reached his own”
“My father was a …”
“My father was a scoundrel then”
“Believe me, if that man …”
“Believe my, if that man wrongs my sister, I will hunt him down and kill him like a dog”
“Never marry at all Dorian, men …”
“Never marry at all Dorian, men marry because that are tired; women because they are curious, both are disappointed”
“I was very fond of her . The house …”
“I was very fond of her. The house is rather lonely without her. of course married life is only a bad habit”
“Beggared herself …” (TBC)
“Beggared herself for love”
“She raised my fathers gun, took aim …”
“She raised my fathers gun, took aim and put a single, irreproachable bullet through my husbands head”
“She would gladly have …”
“She would gladly have gone to the ends of the earth for her father”
“My father said …”
“My father said he loved me, yet he staked his daughter on a game of cards”
“The beautiful somnambulist …”
“The beautiful somnambulist helplessly perpetuates her ancestral crimes”
“She does not possess …”
“She does not possess herself, her ancestors come and peer out of the windows of her eyes”
“She made a great …”
“She made a great swipe at it with her fathers knife”
“Now the child …”
“Now the child lived in her grandmothers house, she prospered”
“She’s not a …”
“She’s not a wolf herself … although suckled by wolves”
“She was as pitiful as …”
“She was a pitiful as her grey, gaunt mother”
