“When I saw him look at me with lust, I dropped my eyes but, in glancing away from him, I caught sight of myself in the mirror. And I saw myself, suddenly, as he saw me… for the first time in my innocent and confined life, I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption that took my breath away.”

— A. Carter - ‘The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories’ (via corpsicles)

(Source: indelicacy, via corpsicles)

5:13 pm  •  24 February 2012  •  6 notes