TBC Quote Bank
TBC Female Narrator
‘into the unguessable country of marriage’
‘'The lilies I always associated with him; that are white. And stain you'’
‘in my innocence he sensed a rare talent for corruption’
‘i sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption’
‘stain you’
‘took the forbidden key from the heap.’
‘evidence of my husbands true nature’
‘bloody bandage of rubies’
‘the child with her sticklike limbs’
‘neither on the land nor the water’
‘mouse coloured hair’
‘his castle ... faery solitude’
‘A dozen husbands impaled a dozen brides’
‘into marriage into exile’
‘dead lips smiled’
‘his wedding gift’
‘my purchaser unwrapped his bargain’
‘bare as a lamb chop’
‘when i has first seen my flesh in his eyes’
‘mirror’ ‘monacled’ ‘examined’
‘he stripped me’
‘stripping the leaves off an artichoke’
‘examined them limb by limb’
"leonine" 'dark mane'
‘put a single irreproachable bullet through [her] husband head.’
‘it spared my shame (narrator is not shameful)’
, ‘you do not deserve this’ (atypical of gothic men to be in support of women instead of objectify
them)
‘such technique’ (sees her as skilled not as object)
TCOML
"This lovely girl, whose skin possesses that same inner light
‘her kitchen window’
‘snow possessed a light of its own’
"His Beauty, his Girl-Child, his pet"
It was almost night"
TTB
‘my father lost me to the beast at cards’
‘public executions’ ‘funeral hush’
‘i was a wild wee thing’
‘gobble you up’
‘raucous guffaw’
‘the lamb must learn to run with the tigers’
‘my earrings turned to water and trickled down my shoulders’
‘ripped petal by petal apart’
‘see the pretty young lady unclothed, nude without her dress’
‘How pleased I was to see I struck the beast’
‘a single tear’
‘he was far for frightened of me’
‘crude clumsiness’
TEK
‘vertical bars of a brass coloured distillation’
‘tender butcher’
‘you are no longer in the open air ; the woods swallow you up’
‘she will be trapped in her own illusion’
TBC Female Narrator
‘into the unguessable country of marriage’
‘'The lilies I always associated with him; that are white. And stain you'’
‘in my innocence he sensed a rare talent for corruption’
‘i sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption’
‘stain you’
‘took the forbidden key from the heap.’
‘evidence of my husbands true nature’
‘bloody bandage of rubies’
‘the child with her sticklike limbs’
‘neither on the land nor the water’
‘mouse coloured hair’
‘his castle ... faery solitude’
‘A dozen husbands impaled a dozen brides’
‘into marriage into exile’
‘dead lips smiled’
‘his wedding gift’
‘my purchaser unwrapped his bargain’
‘bare as a lamb chop’
‘when i has first seen my flesh in his eyes’
‘mirror’ ‘monacled’ ‘examined’
‘he stripped me’
‘stripping the leaves off an artichoke’
‘examined them limb by limb’
"leonine" 'dark mane'
‘put a single irreproachable bullet through [her] husband head.’
‘it spared my shame (narrator is not shameful)’
, ‘you do not deserve this’ (atypical of gothic men to be in support of women instead of objectify
them)
‘such technique’ (sees her as skilled not as object)
TCOML
"This lovely girl, whose skin possesses that same inner light
‘her kitchen window’
‘snow possessed a light of its own’
"His Beauty, his Girl-Child, his pet"
It was almost night"
TTB
‘my father lost me to the beast at cards’
‘public executions’ ‘funeral hush’
‘i was a wild wee thing’
‘gobble you up’
‘raucous guffaw’
‘the lamb must learn to run with the tigers’
‘my earrings turned to water and trickled down my shoulders’
‘ripped petal by petal apart’
‘see the pretty young lady unclothed, nude without her dress’
‘How pleased I was to see I struck the beast’
‘a single tear’
‘he was far for frightened of me’
‘crude clumsiness’
TEK
‘vertical bars of a brass coloured distillation’
‘tender butcher’
‘you are no longer in the open air ; the woods swallow you up’
‘she will be trapped in her own illusion’
