MINISTER: All he has done is to find some means of bewitching the intelligence. He has only induced a radical suspension of disbelief. As in the early days of the cinema, all the citizens are jumping through the screen to lay their hands on the naked lady in the bathtub! A M B A S S A D O R: And yet, in fact, their fingers touch flesh. M I N I S T E R: They believe they do. Yet all they touch is substantial shadow. A M B A S S A D O R: And what a beautiful definition of flesh! You know I am only substantial shadow, Minister, but if you cut me, I bleed. Touch me, I palpitate!. Angela Carter
Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.
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Tessa Dare
I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.
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Jess C. Scott
A fit, healthy body–that is the best fashion statement
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Jess C. Scott
I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?
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Jess C. Scott
V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.
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Jess C. Scott
More Quotes By Angela Carter
I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how.
Those were her best days, although there was always something feckless about her, something so slack and almost fearful in her too frequent smile, so that when you saw Mignon being happy, you always thought: "It can't last." She had the febrile gaiety of a...
She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man’s land between life...
To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man! Give me two spheres and a straight line and I will show you how far...
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
