Saints and Strangers Quotes

“Sad; so sad, those smoky-rose, smoky-mauve evenings of late autumn, sad enough to pierce the heart. The sun departs the sky in winding sheets of gaudy cloud; anguish enters the city, a sense of the bitterest regret, a nostalgia for things we never knew, anguish of the turn of the year, the time of impotent yearning, the inconsolable season.”
― Angela Carter, Saints and Strangers

“What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?”
― Angela Carter, Saints and Strangers

“There Peter sat in the new sunlight, plaiting the straw for baskets, until he saw the thing he had been taught most to fear advancing silently along the lea of an outcrop of rock.”
― Angela Carter, Saints and Strangers