Fairytale Quote by Angela Carter Download Open image ““My father lost me to the Beast at cards”” — Angela Carter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fairytale Father Feminist Gothic Parenting
I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“Beast lifted me over his fucking shoulder. Again. “Hey!” He gave my right ass cheek a slap and strode into his home. I hopelessly,… — James Cox Copy Share Image
“I had been eagerly waiting just such a disaster. Storms, wolves, snakebite, floods-these are the occasions to find out how your father sees you,… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“If a man is a beast, he’s a beast in his heart, and that’s not the kind of heart that beats in you.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Dad's death didn't hollow me out the way Helen's had. After all, everyone had assumed Dad was a goner back when he got kicked… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“was no longer a child, afraid of the threat my terrifying father posed to my safety. I was a man, afraid of the threat… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I'll never know what possessed my mother to steal my father's lions that night.” — Laura Shepard Townsend Copy Share Image
“My father took my hand and said, "let's go. What happened next was magical and beyond my wildest expectations.” — Stephen Joseph Mitskavich Copy Share Image
He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the window of her eyes… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday's washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt with on… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different! — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Yes sir, the fish was left in place of the crystal ball. It's been bagged and tagged for analysis.” Great. Now we have another… — A.F. Stewart Copy Share Image
This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments. — Selena Gomez Copy Share Image
When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings. — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when… — Bethenny Frankel Copy Share Image
I was obsessed with fairytales, and I was a very, very inquisitive kid, and I would ask my mom all kinds of questions. It… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
“It began with the Christmas tree lights. They were candy-bright, mouth-size. She wanted to feel the lightness of them on her tongue, the spark… — Kirsty Logan Copy Share Image
“One kiss,” he murmured against her cheek. The tight knot within him begged for release. She swallowed. “I…do… don’t know.” “I will nae beg… — Mary Morgan Copy Share Image
We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe just how… — Sol Saks Copy Share Image
A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different from reality.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
In his eyes I saw all the other possibilities. The dream-world possibilities. The fairytale possibilities. The seemingly impossible possibilities. — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
“As the next Cinderella, she would have to marry whichever fairytale prince ended up in her story. But she couldn't help making a small,… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
