The Passion of New Eve Quotes

“For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.”
― Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve

“Degredation is the subtlest drug, the most insinuating. But they could do nothing to me I had not already imagined.”
― Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve

“Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman.”
― Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve

“we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the nature of our life alone has determined their forms.”
― Angela Carter, Passion of New Eve

“She had given herself to the world in her entirety and then found nothing was left”
― Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve

“Below me, in spreading, concentric circles, like those a fish makes when it rises in still water, spun round the lower tiers; above me arched the black sky pierced by the gas jets of the stars.”
― Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve

“She walked in technicolor.”
― Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve

“Only fatality could have possessed me to go high-tailing off in such troubled times, fatality and the unknowable impulsion of the destination ahead of me. a destination of which I was entirely ignorant although it had chosen me long ago for our destinations choose us, choose us before we are born.

And exercise a magnetic attraction upon us, drawing us inexorably towards the source we have forgotten. Descend lower, descend the diminishing spirals of being that restore us to our source. Descend lower; while the world, in time, goes forward and so presents us with the illusion of motion, though all our lives we move through the curvilinear galleries of the brain towards the core of the labyrinth within us.”
― Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve

“Bruised machismo takes longer to heal than a broken head.”
― Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve

“But Tristessa could make only the most perfunctory gestures towards real life, even if her life depended on it. And, besides, nobody had ever loved her for anything as commonplace as humanity”
― Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve

“The vengeance of sex is love.”
― Angela Carter , The Passion of New Eve

“The night closed over on itself like flesh on a wound.”
― Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve

“Knowledge had made me, I was a man-made masterpiece of skin and bone, the technological Eve in person.”
― Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve

“For I am not natural, you know - even though, if you cut me, I will bleed.”
― Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve