Quotes from bookThe Collector
The Collector is a 1963 thriller novel by English author John Fowles, in his literary debut. Its plot follows a lonely, psychotic young man who kidnaps a female art student in London and holds her captive in the cellar of his rural farmhouse. Divided in two sections, the novel contains both the perspective of the captor, Frederick, as well as that of Miranda, the captive. The portion of the novel told from Miranda's perspective is presented in epistolary form.
“I'm not really sorry. But I'm not absolutely unsorry.”
John Fowles book The Collector
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“When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies”
John Fowles book The Collector
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“But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me”
John Fowles book The Collector
Variant: Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.
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“I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel.”
John Fowles book The Collector
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“They're beautiful. But sad.'
Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.”
John Fowles book The Collector
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“We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.”
John Fowles book The Collector
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