When I saw him look at me with lust, I dropped my eyes but, in glancing away from him, I caught sight of myself in the mirror. And I saw myself, suddenly, as he saw me, my pale face, the way the muscles in my neck stuck out like thin wire. I saw how much that cruel necklace became me. And, for the first time in my innocent and confined life, I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption that took my breath away. . Angela Carter
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love - Unknown

  2. Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves - Laura Esquivel

  3. Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long. Good things come to those who wait. - Jess C. Scott

  4. I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are. - Jess C. Scott

  5. I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they? - Jess C. Scott

More Quotes By Angela Carter
  1. I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how.

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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.

Related Topics