The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.
John FowlesTags: nature description beautiful-prose
No doubt our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.
John FowlesWhat had always attracted me in the opposite sex was what they tried to hide, what provoked all the metaphorical equivalents of seducing them out of their clothes into nakedness.
John FowlesTags: the-magus
His statement to himself should have been 'I possess this now,therefore I am happy' , instead of what it so Victorianly was: 'I cannot possess this forever, therefore I am sad.
John FowlesNu va vorbi niciodată, nu va ierta, nu va întinde niciodată mîna, va rămîne de-a pururi în
acest prezent îngheţat. Totul este suspendat în aşteptare: copacii de toamnă, cerul de toamnă, trecătorii
anonimi. Printre sălciile de la malul lacului, o biată mierlă cam nebună cîntă, deşi nu e timpul ei. Un
stol de porumbei deasupra caselor; fragmente de libertate, de hazard, o algebră incarnată. Şi venind nu
se ştie de unde, mirosul înţepător de frunze arse.
I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a certain kind of girl, liked me; I had a car-not so common among undergraduates in those days-and I had some money. I wasn't ugly; and even more important, I had my loneliness, which, as every cad knows, is a deadly weapon with women. My 'technique' was to make a show of unpredictability, cynicism, and indifference. Then, like a conjurer with his white rabbit, I produced the solitary heart.
John FowlesTags: loneliness seduction-technique
If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.
John FowlesAsk me to marry you."
"Will you marry me?"
"No.
Tags: proposal
When she went out she used to wear a lot of eye shadow, which married with the sulky way she sometimes held her mouth to give her a characteristic bruised look; a look that subtly made one want to bruise her more.
John FowlesNice girl, dear boy."
"Oh . . ." I shrugged. "You know."
"Most attractive."
"Cheaper than central heating."
"I'm sure.
Tags: central-heating nice-girl
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