Amor Quote by 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

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

— Angela Carter

Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.

— 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

“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

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

— Angela Carter

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

— Angela Carter

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

“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

Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

— 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…

— 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