The Collector Quotes

“It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“People change when shit happens.”
― Victoria Scott, The Collector

“It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“I wonder what it would feel like to laugh like that, with complete abandon.”
― Victoria Scott, The Collector

“Her wavy hair falls to mid-waist, and I think how she looks better this way. From the back.”
― Victoria Scott, The Collector

“Speak up, Charlie,” I say. “If you have something to say, then say it out loud.”
― Victoria Scott, The Collector

“It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“Her soul is clear of any red seals, but that won't last long, ' cause Papa's come to play.”
― Victoria Scott

“I am one in a row of specimens. It’s when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I’m meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive, but it’s the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.”
― John Fowles, The Collector