He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic the living in every detail since, though they cannot speak or weep, still they project those signals of signification we instantly recognize as language.
Angela CarterThere are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.
Angela CarterOut of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!
Angela Carter