381 Quotes by Angela Carter

And, in the red firelight, I blushed again, unnoticed, to think he might have chosen me because, in my innocence, he sensed a rare talent for corruption.

A young girl would go into the wood as trustingly as Red Riding Hood to her granny’s house but this light admits no ambiguities and, here, she will be trapped in her own illusion because everything in the woods is exactly as it seems.

Erl-King lives.

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I’d ever seen, that California sunshine.

She looks wonderful, but she doesn’t look right.

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force.

I toppled off my pyrotechnic tiger and, as I plunge downwards, endlessly as Lucifer, I ask myself: “What is the most miraculous event in the world?” And I answer myself: “I am going to fall into my own arms. They stretch out to me from the bottom of the pit.

You must not think my father valued me at less than a king’s ransom; but, at no more than a king’s ransom.

It’s every woman’s tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we’ve known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.