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Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment. -- Angela Carter
She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man's land between life and death, sleeping and waking. -- Angela Carter
She is so beautiful she is unnatural; her beauty is an abnormality, a deformity, for none of her features exhibit any of those touching imperfections that reconcile us to the imperfection of the human condition. -- Angela Carter
Ironing's nice and simple,' he said. 'I get all tangled up in words when I'm putting together those interminable papers ... -- Angela Carter
I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps. -- Angela Carter
I clung to him as though only the one who had inflicted the pain could comfort me for suffering it. -- Angela Carter
Reciprocity of sensation is not possible because to share is to be robbed. -- Angela Carter
She was feeling supernatural tonight. She wanted to EAT diamonds. -- Angela Carter
Oh, the pain of it, thought Lee, thinking about his children, oh! the exquisite pain of unrequited love. The only authentic wound, the sweet curse they inflict on you, the revenge of heterosexuality. -- Angela Carter
It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all. -- Angela Carter
Time was his servant, too; it would trap me, here, in a night that would last until he came back to me, like a black sun on a hopeless morning. -- Angela Carter
Abandoned lovers were often lured into the false embrace of faithless mistresses and this caused the Minister the gravest concern for he feared that one day a man would impregnate an illusion and then a generation of half-breed ghosts would befoul the city -- Angela Carter
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. -- Angela Carter
They say there's an ointment the Devil gives you that turns you into a wolf the minute you rub it on. -- Angela Carter
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation. -- Angela Carter
It was a real treat when he'd read me Daisy Miller out loud. But we'd reached the point in our relationship when, in a straight choice between him and Henry James, I'd have taken Henry James any day even if Henry James were dead and not much of a one for the girls when living, either. -- Angela Carter
How pleased I was to see I strick the Beast to the heart. -- Angela Carter
There are limits to the power of laughter and though I may hint at them from time to time, I do not propose to step over them. -- Angela Carter
Ruin had been the original blueprint and men and women had lived here only in a necessary but intermediate stage of the execution of the grand design -- Angela Carter
Man does and is dressed to do so, his skin is his own business. He is artful, the creation of culture. Woman is; and is, therefore, fully dressed in no clothes at all, her skin is common property. -- Angela Carter
A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy. -- Angela Carter
There Peter sat in the new sunlight, plaiting the straw for baskets, until he saw the thing he had been taught most to fear advancing silently along the lea of an outcrop of rock. -- Angela Carter
We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents' lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies-all the bits and pieces of our unique existences. -- Angela Carter
You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself. -- Angela Carter
The magnificence of such objects hardly pertains to the human. They live only in a world of icons and there they participate in rituals which transmute life itself to a series of grand gestures, as moving as they are absurd. -- Angela Carter
We keep the wolves outside by living well. -- Angela Carter
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. -- Angela Carter
I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me. -- Angela Carter
They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, gray members of a congregation of nightmare; hark! his long wavering howl ... an aria of fear made audible.
The wolfsong is the sound of the rending you will suffer, in itself a murdering. -- Angela Carter
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us. -- Angela Carter
Sometimes it was possible for me to believe he had practised an enchantment upon me, as foxes in this country may, for, here, a fox can masquerade as human and at the best of times the high cheekbones gave to his face the aspect of a mask. -- Angela Carter
He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic the living in every detail since, though they cannot speak or weep, still they project those signals of signification we instantly recognize as language. -- Angela Carter
A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. -- Angela Carter
Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through. -- Angela Carter
Fish in the sea are luminous so that they can recognise one another; might not men and women also exude some kind of speechless luminescence to those akin to them? -- Angela Carter
She was no malleable, since frigid, substance upon which desires might be executed; she was not a true prostitute for she was the object on which men prostituted themselves. -- Angela Carter
The world exists only as a medium in which we execute our desires. Physically, the world itself, the actual world - the real world, if you like - is formed of malleable clay; its metaphysical structures is just as malleable. -- Angela Carter
step between the gateposts of the forest with the greatest trepidation and infinite precautions, for if you stray from the path for one instant, the wolves will eat you. They are grey as famine, they are as unkind as plague. The -- Angela Carter
As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from the vantage point of his wondrously serene old age, he contemplates our lives almost as if they were books he can dip into whenever he wants. His back pages, perhaps. -- Angela Carter
The enchantment of that bright, sad, pretty place enveloped her and she found that, against all her expectations, she was happy there. -- Angela Carter
And we drove towards the widening dawn, that now streaked half the sky with a wintry bouquet of pink of roses, orange of tiger-lilies, as if my husband had ordered me a sky from a florist. The day broke around me like a cool dream. -- Angela Carter
I've changed a lot since 1969, and so has the world; I'm more benign, the world is far bleaker, and the people in Love would now be edging nervously up to the middle age they thought could never happen, they thought the world would end first. -- Angela Carter
Finn is Daddy,' said Victoria with fat satisfaction.
'Not yet,' said Finn. 'But we'll christen the first one Proximity.'
Melanie choked on a mouthful. -- Angela Carter
Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can't be ironic all the time. -- Angela Carter
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions. -- Angela Carter
Old wives' tales - that is, worthless stories, untruths, trivial gossip, a derisive label that allots the art of storytelling to women at the exact same time as it takes all value from it. -- Angela Carter
It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer - that is, an incompetent practitioner of applied linguistics. -- Angela Carter
That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world. -- Angela Carter
This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero. -- Angela Carter
Her voice is filled with distant sonorities, like reverberations in a cave: now you are at the place of annihilation, now you are at the place of annihilation. And she is herself a cave full of echoes, she is a system of repetitions, she is a closed circuit. -- Angela Carter
And it was sad music fit to make you cut your throat. -- Angela Carter
I shall take two huge handfuls of his rustling hair as he lies half dreaming, half waking, and wind them into ropes, very softly, so he will not wake up, and, softly, with hands as gentle as rain, I shall strangle him with them. -- Angela Carter
I would really like to have had the guts and the energy and so on to be able to write about, you know, people having battles with the DHSS. But I ... I haven't. They're dull things. I mean, I'm an arty person. OK, I write overblown, purple, self-indulgent prose. So fucking what? -- Angela Carter
I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one. -- Angela Carter
Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common. -- Angela Carter
I'm sufficient of a doctrinaire to believe that the novel is the product of a leisured class. Actually. -- Angela Carter
Spindly branches of buttercups were secreted among gleaming stems still moist at the roots from last night's rain that had washedand refreshed the entire wood, had dowered it in poignant transparency, the unique, inconsolable quality of rainy countries, as if all was glimpsed through tears. -- Angela Carter
She said to the Daisy girl with her big brown eyes: 'I will not have it plain. No. Fancy. It must be fancy!' She meant her future. A moon-daisy dropped to the floor, down from her hair, like a faintly derisive sign from heaven. -- Angela Carter
The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world. -- Angela Carter
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers ... Pornography is a satire on human pretensions. -- Angela Carter
This clockwork twin of mine halted before me, her bowels churning out a settecento minuet, and offered me the bold carnation of her smile. Click, click
she raises her arm and busily dusts my cheeks with pink, powdered chalk that makes me cough; then thrusts towards me her little mirror. -- Angela Carter
On her eighteenth birthday, my mother had disposed of a man-eating tiger that had ravaged the villages in the hills north of Hanoi. Now, without a moment's hesitation, she raised my father's gun, took aim and put a single, irreproachable bullet through my husband's head. -- Angela Carter
And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs. My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders; I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur. -- Angela Carter
Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe. -- Angela Carter
Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you. -- Angela Carter
All white with snow as if under dustsheets, as if laid away eternally as soon as brought back from the shop, never to be seen or touched -- Angela Carter
The lilies i always associate with him; that are white. And stain you. -- Angela Carter
It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre
the novel designed on purpose to be excludedfrom the Booker short-list. -- Angela Carter
The long-drawn, wavering howl has, for all its fearful resonance, some inherent sadness in it, as if the beasts would love to be less beastly if only they knew how and never cease to mourn their own condition. -- Angela Carter
The triumph of the will recreates, as its Utopia, the world of early childhood, and that is a world of nightmare, impotence and fear, in which the child fantasises, out of its own powerlessness, an absolute supremacy. -- Angela Carter
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with. -- Angela Carter
Snowlight, moonlight, a confusion of paw-prints. -- Angela Carter
The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown. -- Angela Carter
At length the grandeur of the mountains becomes monotonous; with familiarity, the landscape ceases to provoke awe and wonder and the traveller sees the alps with the indifferent eye of those who always live there. -- Angela Carter
Below me, in spreading, concentric circles, like those a fish makes when it rises in still water, spun round the lower tiers; above me arched the black sky pierced by the gas jets of the stars. -- Angela Carter
Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been -- Angela Carter
She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver. -- Angela Carter
Even if it is the dream made flesh, the real, once it becomes real, can be no more than real. -- Angela Carter
It was the beginning of an anxiety that would never end, except with the deaths of either or both; and anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but it is not compatible with innocence. -- Angela Carter
In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. -- Angela Carter
It is a characteristic of human beings that if they haven't got a family of their own, they will invent one. -- Angela Carter
[T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants
neither alcohol nor meat
are served, that comforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood. -- Angela Carter
You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as, just as long as, the movie lasted, and then all would all vanish. -- Angela Carter
She quickly interpreted him into her mythology but if, at first, he was a herbivorous lion, later he became a unicorn devouring raw meat. -- Angela Carter
The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers. -- Angela Carter
Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast. -- Angela Carter
When the sun goes down, it is very cold and then I easily start crying because the winter moon pierces my heart
The Smile of Winter -- Angela Carter
Her beauty is a symptom of her disorder, of her soullessness. -- Angela Carter
Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future. She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous, a world of sensual immediacy as without hope as it is without despair. -- Angela Carter
As if Hollywood were the name of the enchanted forest where you loose yourself and find yourself, again; the wood that changes you; the wood where you go mad; the wood where the shadows life longer than you do. -- Angela Carter
I will vanish in the morning light; I was only an invention of darkness. -- Angela Carter
Degredation is the subtlest drug, the most insinuating. But they could do nothing to me I had not already imagined. -- Angela Carter
Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison. -- Angela Carter
Child, if such folks awe you, then picture them on the lavatory, straining, constipated. They will at once seem small, pathetic, manageable." And she whispered to me a great, universal truth: "THE BOWELS ARE GREAT LEVELLERS. -- Angela Carter
Justine's virtue, in action, is the liberal lie in action, a good heart and an inadequate methodology. -- Angela Carter
Evil is usually attractive, because evil is defiant. -- Angela Carter
The perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden. -- Angela Carter
She goes out at night more often now; the landscape assembles itself about her, she informs it with her presence. She is its significance. -- Angela Carter
She looks wonderful, but she doesn't look right. -- Angela Carter
These days, you could stage a three-point orgy in the garden and nobody would bat an eye... -- Angela Carter
Reason cannot produce the poetry disorder does. -- Angela Carter
His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist. -- Angela Carter
She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. -- Angela Carter
What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist? -- Angela Carter
The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his partial faculties
that is, providing he is perfectly aware of the precise nature of sight and does not confuse it with second sightnor with madness. -- Angela Carter
I desire therefore I exist. -- Angela Carter
I can no longer tell the difference between memory and dream. They share the same quality of wishful thinking. -- Angela Carter
Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge ... The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle. -- Angela Carter
The earth turned on the pivot of her mouth. -- Angela Carter
Do you not feel', said the Doctor in his very soft but still crisp-edged voice, 'that invisible presences have more reality than visible ones? They exert more influence upon us. They make us cry more easily. -- Angela Carter
A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast. -- Angela Carter
I fall to the toilette of my hinder parts, my favourite stance when contemplating the ways of the world. -- Angela Carter
Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they're only habits and give no clue at all to my character, whatever that is. The most difficult performance in the world is acting naturally isn't it? Everything else is artful. -- Angela Carter
One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her and did not leave her until the night closed in catastrophe for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities. -- Angela Carter
He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive. -- Angela Carter
I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them. -- Angela Carter
Sometimes he lays his head on my lap and lets me comb his lovely hair for him; his combings are leaves of every tree in the wood and dryly susurrate around my feet. -- Angela Carter
When I'd first loved him, I wanted to take him apart, as a child dismembers a clockwork toy, to comprehend the inscrutable mechanics of its interior.
-flesh and the mirror -- Angela Carter
This is some kind of heretical, possibly Manichean version of neo-Platonic Roscicrucianism, thinks I to myself; tread carefully, girlie! -- Angela Carter
Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things. -- Angela Carter
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. -- Angela Carter
Vengeful as nature herself, she loves her children only in order to devour them better and if she herself rips her own veils of self-deceit, Mother perceives in herself untold abysses of cruelty as subtle as it is refined. -- Angela Carter
The end of exile is the end of being. -- Angela Carter
She stood lost in eternity ... watching the immense sky ... -- Angela Carter
The piety, the gentleness, the honesty, the sensitivity, all the qualities she has learned to admire in herself, are invitations to violence; all her life, she has been groomed for the slaughterhouse. And though she is virtuous, she does not know how to do good. -- Angela Carter
There are some eyes that can eat you. -- Angela Carter
He has the special quality of virginity, most and least ambiguous of states: ignorance, yet at the same time, power in potentia, and, furthermore, unknowingness, which is not the same as ignorance. -- Angela Carter
But needs must when the devil drives. -- Angela Carter
Marianne had sharp, cold eyes and she was spiteful but her father loved her. -- Angela Carter
His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat. -- Angela Carter
He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised. -- Angela Carter
From beggar to thief is one step, but a step in two directions at the same time, for what a beggar loses in morality when he becomes a thief he regains in self-respect. -- Angela Carter
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. -- Angela Carter
And I could believe that it has been the same with him; he was alive from the desire of the woods. -- Angela Carter
My father lost me to the Beast at cards -- Angela Carter
Swahili storytellers believe that women are incorrigibly wicked, diabolically cunning and sexually insatiable; I hope this is true, for the sake of the women. -- Angela Carter
The air shuddered with the beginning of absence. -- Angela Carter
The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do. -- Angela Carter
One beast and only one howls in the woods by night. -- Angela Carter
In this country you do not need to think, but only to look, and soon you think you understand everything. -- Angela Carter
I toppled off my pyrotechnic tiger and, as I plunge downwards, endlessly as Lucifer, I ask myself: "What is the most miraculous event in the world?" And I answer myself: "I am going to fall into my own arms. They stretch out to me from the bottom of the pit. -- Angela Carter
I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how. -- Angela Carter
There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off. -- Angela Carter
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day. -- Angela Carter
See! sweet and sound she sleeps in granny's bed, between the paws of the tender wolf. -- Angela Carter
We must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the nature of our life alone has determined their forms. -- Angela Carter
If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink. -- Angela Carter
I was a young girl, a virgin, and therefore men denied me rationality just as they denied it to all those who were not exactly like themselves, in all their unreason. -- Angela Carter
The victim is always morally superior to the master; that is the victim's ambivalent triumph. That is why there have been so few notoriously wicked women in comparison to the number of notoriously wicked men; our victim status ensures that we rarely have the opportunity. -- Angela Carter
In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force -- Angela Carter
He grudgingly admitted what she had already guessed, that he disliked the presence of servants because, she thought, a constant human presence would remind him too bitterly of his otherness [ ... ] -- Angela Carter
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. -- Angela Carter
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual. -- Angela Carter
It is, perhaps, a better thing to be valued only as an object of passion than never to be valued at all. I had never been so absolutely the mysterious other. I had become a kind of phoenix, a fabulous beast; I was an outlandish jewel. -- Angela Carter
By the end of the affair, she had acquired so much miserable information about men and women she almost decided to give up relationships for good. -- Angela Carter
Then she broke down and cried onto the flowery wrapping paper. Melanie put her arms around the poor, thin body. What is Aunt Margaret made of? Birdbones and tissue paper. spun glass and straw. -- Angela Carter
Have you ever stared stark failure in the face, young man? The trick is, to outstare it! -- Angela Carter
[ ... ] he had examined the world by the light of the intellect alone and had seen a totally different construction from that which the senses see by the light of reason. -- Angela Carter
Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves. -- Angela Carter
Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different! -- Angela Carter
We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity. -- Angela Carter
The harder the bargain men must strike with nature to survive, the more rules they're likely to have amongst themselves too keep them all in order -- Angela Carter
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism. -- Angela Carter
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. -- Angela Carter
The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh? -- Angela Carter
I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass. -- Angela Carter
Love is the synthesis of dream and actuality; love is the only matrix of the unprecedented; love is the tree which buds lovers like roses. -- Angela Carter
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. -- Angela Carter
The habit of sardonic contemplation is the hardest habit of all to break. -- Angela Carter
Despair is the constant companion of the clown. -- Angela Carter
It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine. -- Angela Carter
I am happy only in that I am a monster. -- Angela Carter
As if your essence were hung up in a closet like a dress too good to be worn and you were reduced to going out in only your appearance. -- Angela Carter
A day without an argument is like an egg without salt. -- Angela Carter
Hollywood ... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production. -- Angela Carter
What a joy it is to dance and sing! -- Angela Carter
My fays shall lullaby you as we cuddle up on my mattress of dandelion down. -- Angela Carter
The kind of power mothers have is enormous. -- Angela Carter
In his diabolic solitude, only the possibility of love could awake the libertine to perfect, immaculate terror. It is in this holy terror of love that we find, in both men and women themselves, the source of all opposition to the emancipation of women. -- Angela Carter
For nothing is more boring than being forced to play. -- Angela Carter
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. -- Angela Carter
Buzz crouched between her feet and scrutinised as much as he could see of her perilous interior to find out if all was in order and there were no concealed fangs or guillotines inside her to ruin him. -- Angela Carter
It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time. -- Angela Carter
A young girl would go into the wood as trustingly as Red Riding Hood to her granny's house but this light admits no ambiguities and, here, she will be trapped in her own illusion because everything in the woods is exactly as it seems. -- Angela Carter
They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night. -- Angela Carter
Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation. -- Angela Carter
Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well. -- Angela Carter
A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster. -- Angela Carter
If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things? -- Angela Carter
Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason. -- Angela Carter
Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them. -- Angela Carter
The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing. -- Angela Carter
Her face. And she smiling. For a moment, just that moment, you would have thought it was May morning. -- Angela Carter
I have sharp teeth inside my mouth,
Inside my dark red lips,
And lacquer slickly hides the claws
In my red fingertips.
So I conceal my armoury.
Yours is all on view.
You think you are possessing me-
But I've got my teeth in you. -- Angela Carter
I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe. -- Angela Carter
It would mean that the castle is not yet generating enough eroto-energy. -- Angela Carter
Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman. -- Angela Carter
Destruction is only another aspect of being. -- Angela Carter
Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride. -- Angela Carter
(And could love free me from the shadows? Can a caged bird sing only the song it knows or can it learn a new song?) -- Angela Carter
I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation and a touch of megalomania can be comforting around five on a November afternoon when you haven't seen anybody all day. -- Angela Carter
I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with. -- Angela Carter
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. -- Angela Carter
She had given herself to the world in her entirety and then found nothing was left -- Angela Carter
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. -- Angela Carter
A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar. -- Angela Carter
Hope for the best, expect the worst. -- Angela Carter
For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody. -- Angela Carter
The lovely Hazard girls', they used to call them. Huh. Lovely is as lovely does; if they looked like what they behave like, they'd frighten little children. -- Angela Carter
...a great future behind him, already -- Angela Carter
ordered me a sky from a florist -- Angela Carter
Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure. -- Angela Carter
Curiosity is the most fleeting of pleasures; the moment is satisfied, it ceases to exist and it always proves very, very expensive. -- Angela Carter
I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire. -- Angela Carter
I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off. -- Angela Carter
And from the coffin of your madness there is no escape. -- Angela Carter
Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody. -- Angela Carter
It is far easier for a woman to lead
a blameless life than it is for a man;
all she has to do is to avoid
sexual intercourse like the plague. -- Angela Carter
What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? -- Angela Carter
There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms. -- Angela Carter
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death. -- Angela Carter
Amongst the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest? -- Angela Carter
I was the only man alive who knew time had begun again. -- Angela Carter
At the best of times, spring hurts depressives. -- Angela Carter
The demands of ritual are always stronger than those of reason. -- Angela Carter
The more I saw of love, the less I liked the look of it -- Angela Carter
Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn. -- Angela Carter
How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic? -- Angela Carter
Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with -- Angela Carter
Perhaps ... I could not be content with mere contentment! -- Angela Carter
She walked in technicolor. -- Angela Carter
There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer. -- Angela Carter
Like the culture that created me, I am receding into the past at a rate of knots. Soon I'll need a whole row of footnotes if anybody under thirty-five is going to comprehend the least thing I say. -- Angela Carter
Wars are facts we cannot fuck away, Perry; nor laugh away, either. -- Angela Carter
