Angela CarterLosing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation. ✨ Angela Carter (2011). Heroes and Villains, p.243, Penguin UK371Thought
Angela CarterComedy is tragedy that happens to other people. ✨ Angela Carter (2012). Wise Children, p.213, Random House372HumanityHumor
Angela CarterIt'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.373LoveThoughtTime
Angela CarterThe 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.363Love
Angela CarterHow far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic? ✨ Angela Carter (1997). Burning your boats: the collected short stories, Penguin G… ▶342Sadness
Angela CarterThere's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was… ▶331LifeTime
Angela CarterSo I suppose I do not know how he really looked, and, in fact, I suppose I shall never know, now, for he was plainly an object created in the mode of fantasy. His image was alread… ▶321LoveReadingTime
Angela Carter...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in an hour's time, for it was al… ▶321Time
Angela CarterWomen's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism. ✨ Angela Carter (1998). Shaking a Leg: Col… ▶322Reflection
Angela CarterTo ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man! Give… ▶322Humor
Angela CarterNothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.322DeathLife
Angela CarterWhy do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why? Because, she said. You know that's no answer. You're spoiling your pretty looks, pet. Come here. She did no… ▶356Humor
Angela CarterIconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hange… ▶301Hope
Angela CarterBefore 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 (1997). Burni… ▶367Life
Angela CarterIt shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.301Time
Angela Carterwe 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. … ▶346LifeLove
Angela CarterIf the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?313Death
Angela CarterI 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. ✨ The Company … ▶335Thought
Angela CarterThe 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 (1997). Burning your… ▶3710Truth
Angela CarterSome cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with336Love
Angela CarterFor all cats have this particularity, each and every one, from the meanest alley sneaker to the proudest, whitest she that ever graced a pontiff's pillow — we have our smiles, as … ▶347PoliticsSadnessThought
Angela CarterI drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass. ✨ Angela Carter (1997). Burning your boats: the collected short stories… ▶347Hope
Angela CarterAnd 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 ba… ▶303Life
Angela CarterI haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps. ✨ Angela Carter (1993). Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings, Vintage … ▶358LoveReading
Angela CarterIs not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.336Life
Angela CarterHis contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with the circumspect tenderness of … ▶337LoveReflection
Angela CarterShe 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 … ▶3610Sadness
Angela CarterI am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.337Philosophy
Angela CarterThe kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in … ▶293Politics
Angela CarterShe stood lost in eternity wearing a crazy dress, watching the immense sky. ✨ The Magic Toyshop.293Politics
