His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the complex emotions tied to love and marriage, highlighting both beauty and pain.
Angela Carter's quote depicts the dual nature of wedding gifts, particularly focusing on a choker of rubies. It symbolizes how love can be both a luxury and a burden, suggesting that while marriage can be seen as a precious binding, it may also evoke feelings of entrapment or danger akin to a 'slit throat'.
In practice
During a wedding speech, one might quote this to emphasize the emotional depth of love and commitment.
She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written β heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.
Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.
To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
I think every human being knows how to hate. Because if they didn't know how to hate how to hate they wouldn't know how to love.
I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering.
Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.
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