greenvincentine: “She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors
greenvincentine: “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.” from “The Lady of the House of Love” (The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories) Angela Carter image: Edmund Teske -- source link