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Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Mar 7

Quote of the Day: Fevvers has some great lines in 'Nights at the Circus.'

#angelacarter #bookquotes #literaryfiction #gothicbook #magicrealism #nightsatthecircus

The image has the words "Angela Carter Quote of the Day" over a sepia-tinted background of an old-fashioned sitting room, with gas lamps and antique furniture

This image has the same background and the quote "Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!”

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Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Mar 5

Quote of the Day: A line from 'The Company of Wolves' that made me fall in love with Angela Carter.

#bookquotes #quotes #angelacarterbook #angelacarter #thecompanyofwolves #thebloodychamber #littleredridinghood #werewolf #fairytale #gothicfairytale

Image Description: The first image has the words 'Angela Carter Quote of the Day', and a background showing a figure wearing a red hood standing against snowy woods.

The second image has the quote: “She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.”

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Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Mar 3

Quote of the Day: Mixing it up a little bit, with a scene of the Sleeping Beauty from Madame Shreck's dungeon in 'Nights at the Circus' (this book is WILD!)

#angelacarter #nightsatthecircus #gothicbooks #fantasybooks #magicalrealism #quotes #bookquotes

Image Description: The first image has a background of a sleeping woman in a black dress with blonde hair, reclining on a red velvet covered bed.

Image Description: The second image has a quote from 'Nights at the Circus', reading: “The life she lives in the closed world of dreams is now about to possess her utterly, as if her small, increasingly reluctant wakenings were an interpretation of some more vital existence, so she is loath to spend even those necessary moments of wakefulness with us, wakings strange as her sleepings.”

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Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Feb 28

Quote of the Day: Classic line from a classic fairytale reimagining.

#angelacarterbook #quotes #bookquotes #angelacarter #fairytale #werewolf #littleredridinghood #thebloodychamber #thecompanyofwolves

ID: The image has a background of a wolf howling at a full moon and the words 'Angela Carter Quote of the Day.'

ID: This image has the same background and the quote: “One beast and only one howls in the woods by night. The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.”

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Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Feb 27

'The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman' is SO UNDERRATED. 🥰🥰

#70sbooks #surrealbooks #angelacarter #bookquotes #quotes #coolquotes #angelacarterbook

ID: The first page shows a background of a futuristic city with the words 'Angela Carter Quote of the Day" pasted over it.

ID: The second image shows the quote: "Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with.”

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Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Feb 26

Quote of the Day: One of the rare moments of whimsy from 'The Infernal Desire Machines.'

#quotes #bookquotes #gothicbooks #angelacarter #bookpost #photos #booktok #booktokfyp #surrealism #warofdreams #surrealbooks #70sbooks

Over a background of rose petals on a white and flora patterned bedspread are the words "Angela Carter Quote of the Day."

The Angela Carter quote reads: “Love is the synthesis of dream and actuality; love is the only matrix of the unprecedented; love is the tree which buds lovers like roses.”

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Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Feb 25

Quote of the Day: Another stellar line from 'The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories.'

#angelacarter #thebloodychamber
#thetigersbride
#beautyandthebeast #gothic
#gothicbook #fairytale

The font "Angela Carter Quote of the Day" is pasted over an image of a tiger against a black background

A quote from 'The Tiger's Bride.' The quote reads “The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.”

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Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Feb 24

Angela Carter on Vampires = BIG Carmilla energy. 🩸🩸

#booktok #photos #bookpost #thebloodychamber #shortstories #shortstoryanthology #quotes #bookquotes #gothic #gothicbooks #shortstory #angelacarter #vampires #dracula #carmilla

Image Description: A red, white and black background showing two stylised hands, with the words "Angela Carter Quote if the Day."

Image Description: An Angela Carter quote is pasted over a red, white and black background showing two stylised hands. The quote reads: "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."

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Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Feb 19

Quote of the day:

'The Erl-King' might be my new favourite from #thebloodychamber

#angelacarter #gothic #fairytale

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Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Feb 3

Angela Carter, everyone: my Queen of fairytale retellings!

#fairytale #angelacarter #snowwhite #thebloodychamber

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Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Jan 28

This effervescent passage from #nightsatthecircus always makes me smile 😊

#bookquotes #angelacarter #circus #favouritebooks

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Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Jan 18

Those specific moments where the sun glows through pink clouds and the whole world goes rose-coloured. Also, driving to the beach and catching your first glimpse of the ocean. Also, milk being stirred into tea. Also, walking barefoot on thick grass. Also, freckles.

Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Jan 18

Quote of the Day from this messed-up moment in 'Shadow Dance.'
Man, I love this book!

#angelacarter #gothicbook #domesticgothic #bookquote

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Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Jan 17

Those are some gorgeous editions of her work!!! Also, I really recommend 'Shadow Dance', it's my personal favourite out of her earlier novels.

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Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Jan 17

Quote of the Day: This charming passage from Carter's #shortstory 'A Victorian Fable.'

#angelacarter #shortfiction #Victorian #burningyourboats

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Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Jan 16

Quote of the Day from the ICONIC title story of 'The Bloody Chamber.'

#thebloodychamber #angelacarter #gothic #bookquotes

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Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Jan 15

Quote of the Day: This nihilistic as hell moment when Melanie first enters the Magic Toyshop!

#angelacarter #themagictoyshop #gothicbooks

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Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Jan 13

Quoye of the day: Absolutely LOVE this line from her 1974 anthology 'Fireworks'.

#angelacarter #bookquotes #quote #bookish

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Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Jan 12

The sound my CD/tape recorder made when it was warming up to play

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Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Jan 12

Quote of the Day from Carter's first novel 'Shadow Dance.' It's highly underrated, and one of my favourite books.

#angelacarter #gothicbooks

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Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Jan 10

Angela Carter quote of the day:

From one of my favourite domestic #gothic books of all time, her 1967 novel 'The Magic Toyshop.'

#angelacarter #themagictoyshop #gothicbooks

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Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Jan 9

I loved this documentary and seeing all the practical effects wizardry!!! 😍

Rae.the.Dreamer @racheldenhamwriter.bsky.social · Jan 9

Angela Carter quote of the day, from her 1979 #gothic short story "The Erl-King."

#angelacarter #thebloodychamber

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