Best Angela Carter Words
- I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he… Able
- How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic? Absolute
- Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they’re only habits and give no… Acting
- He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in… Absolutely
- I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was… Brief
- There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms. All
- What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the truth?' She nodded.… Altogether
- The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh? Clown
- Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman. Inspirational
- For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody. Anybody
- Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride. Bride
- She stood lost in eternity... watching the immense sky... Eternity
- Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment. Desire
- Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery… Ch
- His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat. Choker
- His touch both consoles and devastates me; I feel my heart pulse, then wither, naked as a stone on the roaring mattress while the lovely,… Bird
- If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Married
- Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. Book
- What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? Instead
- Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody. Everybody
- You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In… From
- Pornography is a satire on human pretensions. Human
- That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who… Expect
- As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from the vantage point… Age
- They danced the dance of the outcasts for the outcasts who watched them, amid the louring trees, with a blizzard coming on. Amid
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