Tarasova

“Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting with ideals. You think that because I can sometimes see what's trivial and what's important in art that I ought to be more virtuous. But I don't want to be virtuous. My charm (if there is any) for you is simply frankness. And experience. Not goodness. I'm not a good man. Perhaps morally I'm younger even than you are. Can you understand that?”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“Is your speaking an improvement on silence?”
― J. Mark G. Williams, The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness

“What you love is your own love. It's not love, it's selfishness. It's not me you think of, but what you feel about me.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness.”
― John Fowles, The Collector