Angela Carter Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• His touch both consoles and devastates me; I feel my heart pulse, then wither, naked as a stone on the roaring mattress while the lovely, moony night slides through the window to dapple the flanks of this innocent who makes cages to keep the sweet birds in. Eat me, drink me; thirsty, cankered, goblin-ridden, I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning.

  Angela Carter

  Sweet, Heart, Night

• A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.

  Angela Carter

  Heart, Broken, Tragedy

  Angela Carter (2012). “Wise Children”, p.153, Random House

• I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one.

  Angela Carter

  Flower, Heart, Tissue Paper

• I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

  Angela Carter

  Heart, Years, Adjectives

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

• Sad; so sad, those smoky-rose, smoky-mauve evenings of late Autumn, sad enough to pierce the heart.

  Angela Carter

  Sad, Heart, Autumn

  Angela Carter (1987). “Saints and Strangers”, Penguin Group USA

• Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast.

  Angela Carter

  Home, Heart, Home Is Where The Heart Is

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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