381 Quotes by Angela Carter

Justine’s virtue, in action, is the liberal lie in action, a good heart and an inadequate methodology.

Reason cannot produce the poetry disorder does.

The world exists only as a medium in which we execute our desires. Physically, the world itself, the actual world – the real world, if you like – is formed of malleable clay; its metaphysical structures is just as malleable.

It was the beginning of an anxiety that would never end, except with the deaths of either or both; and anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but it is not compatible with innocence.

There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we’d lived in different rooms.

The lilies i always associate with him; that are white. And stain you.

Old wives’ tales – that is, worthless stories, untruths, trivial gossip, a derisive label that allots the art of storytelling to women at the exact same time as it takes all value from it.

She is obscene to the extent to which she is beautiful. Her beauty, her submissiveness and the false expectations that these qualities will do her some good are what make her obscene.

You’re nothing but the furious invention of my virgin nights.