❝No. I was not afraid of him; but of myself. I seemed reborn in his unreflective eyes, reborn in unfamiliar shapes. I hardly recognized myself from his descriptions of me and yet, and yet – might there not be a grain of beastly truth in them?



Angela Carter, from

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; “The Bloody Chamber”


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