381 Quotes by Angela Carter

I am happy only in that I am a monster.

I can no longer tell the difference between memory and dream. They share the same quality of wishful thinking.

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

The victim is always morally superior to the master; that is the victim’s ambivalent triumph. That is why there have been so few notoriously wicked women in comparison to the number of notoriously wicked men; our victim status ensures that we rarely have the opportunity.

Just because we’re sisters under the skin doesn’t mean we’ve got much in common.

It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre – the novel designed on purpose to be excludedfrom the Booker short-list.

The real value of a sexually attractive woman in a world which regards good looks as a commodity depends on the degree to which she puts her looks to work for her.

And I could believe that it has been the same with him; he was alive from the desire of the woods.

I was the only man alive who knew time had begun again.