Angela-carter Quote by 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…

— Angela Carter

“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

“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

Her mind is a haunted house.

— Nadeem Aslam

“often she had seemed to herself to be moving among those vanished figures of old books and pictures, an invisible ghost among the living,…

— Virginia Wolf

She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“So the ghostly figure which has haunted these pages, as it haunted my life, goes down into the impenetrable gloom. Like a shadow she…

— Wilkie Collins

“She imagined people picking up the newspapers she dropped through their doors, reading about a world they never visited. For the first time it…

— Catherine O'Flynn

“It is as though she was a phantom watching from the shadows. This at least is how she 'writes' herself: as an absence on…

— Lilian Pizzichini

“Her mind was still tiptoeing along the boundary of consciousness, in that state of semi-waking that spins threads between dream and real, and for…

— Laini Taylor

“As her psychosis took hold she moved deeper and deeper into the house, putting as much distance as possible between herself and the outside…

— Alastair Reynolds

“She’d become her own ghost, haunting her own life.”

— R. Lee Smith