Best Angela Carter Sayings
- The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the… Acknowledge
- Why 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… Answer
- I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off. Country
- The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world. Brave
- His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with… Amputees
- So I suppose I do not know how he really looked, and, in fact, I suppose I shall never know, now, for he was plainly… Actuality
- They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead… Boredom
- You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as,… All
- we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the… Absurd
- She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and… Ancestor
- To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry… All
- One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed… Ambiguities
- Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation. Inspirational
- He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic… All
- The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown. Children
- We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity. All
- The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do. Carnivore
- For 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… Air
- They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, gray members of a congregation of nightmare; hark! his long wavering howl . . .… Aria
- She said to the Daisy girl with her big brown eyes: 'I will not have it plain. No. Fancy. It must be fancy!' She meant… Big
- The 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… Behave
- When I saw him look at me with lust, I dropped my eyes but, in glancing away from him, I caught sight of myself in… Became
- This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero. Gives
- His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist. Exist
- I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire. Desire
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