Quotes from book
Wise Children

Name: Wise Children
Author: Angela Carter

This article refers to the novel by Angela Carter. For the album by Tom Harrell see Wise Children Wise Children was the last novel written by Angela Carter. The novel follows the fortunes of twin chorus girls, Dora and Nora Chance, and their bizarre theatrical family. It explores the subversive nature of fatherhood, the denying of which leads Nora and Dora to frivolous "illegitimate" lechery. The novel plays on Carter's admiration of Shakespeare and her love of fairy tales and the surreal, incorporating a large amount of magical realism and elements of the carnivalesque that probes and twists our expectations of reality and society.

“There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.”

Angela Carter book Wise Children

Source: Wise Children

“Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.”

Angela Carter book Wise Children

Source: Wise Children (1991), ch. 5 (p.213).

“Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been”

Angela Carter book Wise Children

Source: Wise Children

“Hope for the best, expect the worst.”

Angela Carter book Wise Children

Source: Wise Children