Crystal Castillo

“A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster.”
― Angela Carter, The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography

“She plays chess from the passions and I play it from logic and she usually wins. Once, I took her queen and she hit me.”
Though, he recalled, not sufficiently brutally to require that he tie her wrists together with his belt, force her to kneel and beat her until she toppled over sideways. She raised a strangely joyous face to him; the pallor of her skin and the almost miraculous lustre of her eyes startled and even awed him.”
― Angela Carter, Love

“All morning the
Morning has been blackening,

A flower left out.
My bones hold a stillness, the far
Fields melt my heart.

They threaten
To let me through to a heaven
Starless and fatherless, a dark water.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel

“Fish in the sea are luminous so that they can recognise one another; might not men and women also exude some kind of speechless luminescence to those akin to them?”
― Angela Carter, Love