381 Quotes by Angela Carter

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 pillow — we have our smiles, as it were, painted on. Those small, cool, quite Mona Lisa smiles that smile we must, no matter whether it's been fun or it's been not. So all cats have a politician's air; we smile and smile and so they think we're villains

I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.

Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been

I desire therefore I exist.

I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.

This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

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 her future. A moon-daisy dropped to the floor, down from her hair, like a faintly derisive sign from heaven.