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Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast.

Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast.

Angela Carter
Home, Heart, Home Is Where The Heart Is
Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.

Angela Carter
Heart, Broken, Tragedy
Angela Carter (2012). “Wise Children”, p.153, Random House

His touch both consoles and devastates me; I feel my heart pulse, then wither, naked as a stone on the roaring mattress while the lovely, moony night slides through the window to dapple the flanks of this innocent who makes cages to keep the sweet birds in. Eat me, drink me; thirsty, cankered, goblin-ridden, I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning.

Angela Carter
Sweet, Heart, Night

I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one.

Angela Carter
Flower, Heart, Tissue Paper

Sad; so sad, those smoky-rose, smoky-mauve evenings of late Autumn, sad enough to pierce the heart.

Angela Carter
Sad, Heart, Autumn
Angela Carter (1987). “Saints and Strangers”, Penguin Group USA

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

Angela Carter
Heart, Years, Adjectives
Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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