Quote by Angela Carter

“I had lost some of my naivete and gained strength. These women with their pointless scheming could not contain me, and I watched the…

— Shan Sa

“It was a wonderful experience. She mistrusted his very slumbers--and she seemed to think I could tell her why! Thus a poor mortal seduced…

— Anonymous

“That night two lovers whispering under the lead canopy of the church were killed by their own passion. Their effusion of words, unable to…

— Jeanette Winterson

“He respected the slight nervous shadow that crossed her face when he came too near her. But there arose out of this denial itself…

— Thornton Wilder

“The streets were full of destruction and rubble, and this town I'd never liked, with its stupid people, stupid streets, and stupid houses, was…

— Ghérasim Luca

“The world of shadows and superstition that was Victorian England, so well depicted in this 1871 tale, was unique. While the foundations of so…

— Hugh Lamb

“It was not their first choice, and they did not know if they would ever feel at home there, but they could afford, finally,…

— Karen E. Bender

“These were the mysteries of men, so baffling to women. Where silences could become a conjoining of paths. Where a handful of inconsequential words…

— Steven Erikson

“I tell you, my idea of a ghost is something quite different. Dead men rise up never – read even your poets. Ghosts breed…

— Leland Hall

“There were men and women who appeared as fluid as ghosts, they could have been attending a burial out of curiosity, merely to recall…

— José Saramago

“They had imagined too often and too much and so they had exhausted all their possibilities. When they embraced each other’s phantoms, each in…

— Angela Carter

“The male ghost looked God-awful old and starved and moth-eaten. The female ghost looked young enough to be his daughter, sleek, bouncy, and full…

— Kurt Vonnegut