The Bloody Chamber/ Dorian Gray the supernatural Flashcards
Quotes- the supernatural (21 cards)
“Dorian Gray never took …”
“Dorian Gray never took his gaze off of him but sat like one under a spell… growing grave in his darkening eyes”
“That wonderful …”
“That wonderful spirit of his own”
“If it were I who was to be …”
“If It was I who was to be always young, and the picture was to grow old! For that - for that - I would give everything! … I would give my soul for that”
“The most …”
“The most magical of mirrors”
“The expression looked different …”
“The expression looked different … a touch of cruelty in the mouth”
“He wondered and hoped that …”
“He wondered and hoped that some day he would see the portrait change taking place before his very eyes, shuddering as he hoped it”
“What you have got to do is …”
“What you have got to do is to destroy the thing that is upstairs - to destroy it so that not a vestige of it will be left”
“The mask of …”
“The mask of youth had saved him”
“The loathsome red …”
“The loathsome red dew that gleamed red and glistening, on onw of the hands”
“The coarse bloated …”
“The coarse, bloated hands of the portrait, the misshapen body and the flailing limbs”
“He would examine with a …”
“He would examine with a monstrous and terrible delight, the hideous lines that seared the wrinkling forehead”
“No paint nor …”
“No paint nor powder, no matter how thick or white, can mask that red mark on my forehead”
“It was no longer …”
“It was no longer a lion in her arms, but a man”
“Each stroke of his tongue…”
“Each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin… and left behind a nascent patina of shining furs”
“His eyes are quite green …”
“His eyes are quite green, there are some eyes can eat you”
“They will change back into …”
“They will change back into young girls… with the crimson imprint of his lovebite on their throats”
“She was the child …”
“She was the child of his desire”
“The castle is mostly …”
“The castle is mostly given over to ghostly occupants”
“She herself is a …”
“She herself is a haunted house. she does not possess herself”
“The devil holds picnics in …”
“The devil holds picnics in the graveyards and invited the witches; then they dig up fresh corpses and eat them”
“Brought into being by her …”
“Brought into being by her soft, moist, gentle tongue, finally, the face of the Duke”
