Angela Carter Quotes

She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy.

I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits? Are you noisy with quiet times? Or are you quiet with noisy times? Are you happy with some sad days? Or are you sad with some happy days? Are you neat with some sloppy ways? Or are you sloppy with some neat ways? And on and on and on and on and on and on he went. I’ll never ask a zebra about stripes...again.

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.

There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

I was in control of what people thought of me, but I had no control over what they thought of my mother. When I asked my mother, 'How do I tell people about you?' her answer was, 'Tell the truth'. But of course, the truth is never simple.

At times I think and at times I am.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

The truth is, people don't know me. When people don't know you, they're going to try to get to know you as quickly as possible, because you're now taking the place of somebody that they love dearly, or somebody that they hate sincerely, and so they need to know who you are.

The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.

I've always understood the two to be intertwined: sexuality and spirituality. That never changed.

'Saathiya' is about love, discovering yourself through the way you love someone.

I don't believe I've ever truly been in love because I don't believe that I've known myself well enough in the past to allow someone to love me.

All good works of art must ask this question: 'You want to breathe free, yes, but do you know how to kiss?'

The overall concept of 'Only You' is a reflection on the illusion of love, how we confront, understand and manifest our self identities within relationships.