1. People
    2.  › 
  2. Angela Carter
Angela Carter photo

Angela Carter Quotes

Total quotes: 7
“A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.”
— Angela Carter, Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
Tagged: book, Metaphor, Judgement, Physical Appearance
“I will tell you what she was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.”
— Angela Carter, Saints and Strangers
Tagged: useless, Futility, Metaphor, Sadness, Incapacity, Untouched, Examples of Metaphors
“I haven’t changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.”
— Angela Carter, Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
Tagged: Self-awareness, Change, kindness
“There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.”
— Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Tagged: Love, Torture
“October, crisp, misty, golden
October, when the light is sweet and heavy.”
— Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop
Tagged: october, month, Season, period, period of time, Romantic, Sweetness
“The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world.”
— Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Tagged: Invisible, unexplored
“We keep the wolves outside by living well.”
— Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Tagged: danger, wolves, Living well
loading next page...