381 Quotes by Angela Carter

His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.

Dinner was awesome. Mr. Rings can cook. And the kids did great serving.

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 only a connoisseur could detect.

I see this every day. If it's not a hand-out, if it's not free, if it requires a little work, they don't care for it.

Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.

One day I think she will be famous. We are just really proud of her and I wonder what this will lead to. I wonder what her future will be.

For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.

It's useful when a problem comes up that you have no experience of. You then have somebody you can refer to, ... The workplace would be a far nicer place if people said 'thank you' a bit more often.

Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman.