Quotes from book
Nights at the Circus

Nights at the Circus is a novel by British writer Angela Carter, first published in 1984 and that year's winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. The novel focuses on the life and exploits of Sophie Fevvers, a woman who is – or so she would have people believe – a Cockney virgin, hatched from an egg laid by unknown parents and ready to develop fully fledged wings. At the time of the story, she has become a celebrated aerialiste, and she captivates the young journalist Jack Walser, who runs away with the circus and falls into a world that his journalistic exploits had not prepared him to encounter.
“The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?”
Source: Nights at the Circus
“We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.”
Source: Nights at the Circus