381 Quotes by Angela Carter

She stood lost in eternity... watching the immense sky...

...a great future behind him, already

She quickly interpreted him into her mythology but if, at first, he was a herbivorous lion, later he became a unicorn devouring raw meat.

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.

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

I will vanish in the morning light; I was only an invention of darkness.

The dead know something we don’t, although they keep it to themselves.

Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation and reverted to chaos, existing only to themselves in an unstructured world where they were not formally acknowledged, becoming an ever-widening margin of undifferentiated and nameless matter surrounding the outposts of man, who no longer made himself familiar with these things or rendered the authentic in his experience by the gift of naming.

Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation and reverted to chaos, existing only to themselves in an unstructured world . . . surrounding the outposts of man.