Idézetek
But his strange, heavy, almost waxen face was not lined by experience. Rather, experience seemed to have washed it perfectly smooth, like a stone on a beach whose fissures have been eroded by successive tides.
'We have dispensed with servants,' the valet said. 'We surround ourselves, instead, for utility and pleasure, with simulacra and find it no less convenient than do most gentlemen.'
Vintage 2006, The Tiger's Bride, p. 66
Vigyázat! Cselekményleírást tartalmaz.
His eyelids flickered. How was it she had never noticed before that his agate eyes were equipped with lids, like those of a man? Was it because she had only looked at her own face, reflected there?
Vintage 2006, The Courtship of Mr Lyon, p. 54
[S]he experienced a sudden sense of perfect freedom, as if she had just escaped from an unknown danger, had been grazed by the possibility of some change but, finally, left intact. Yet, with this exhilaration, a desolating emptiness.
Vintage 2006, The Courtship of Mr Lyon, p. 51
Vigyázat! Cselekményleírást tartalmaz.
I lay in bed alone. And I longed for him. And he disgusted me.
Vintage 2006, The Bloody Chamber, p. 19
[F]or the first time in my innocent and confined life, I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption that took my breath away.
Vintage 2006, The Bloody Chamber, p. 6
