Caroline

“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster.”
― Angela Carter, The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography

“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 and death, sleeping and waking.”
― Angela Carter, The Lady of the House of Love

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
― Leonard Cohen