A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.
Angela CarterYour green eye is a reducing chamber. If I look into it long enough, I wil become as small as my own reflection, I will diminish to a point and vanish. I will be drawn down into that black whirlpool and be consumed by you. I shall become so small you can keep me in one of your osier cages and mock my loss of liberty.
Angela CarterVengeful as nature herself, she loves her children only in order to devour them better and if she herself rips her own veils of self-deceit, Mother perceives in herself untold abysses of cruelty as subtle as it is refined.
Angela CarterI see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.
Angela Carter