Angela Carter Quotes

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 other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves' birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.

I never saw a fatter man; he'd have given my mother a stone or two and not felt the loss. Round as the "o" in rotund.

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Nora was always free with it and threw her heart away as if it was a used bus ticket.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

[T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants—neither alcohol nor meat—are served, that comforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood.