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John Fowles

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John Fowles

Birthname

Birthday: March 31, 1926

Birthplace: United Kingdom

Death: November 5, 2005

Educated At: New College, Bedford School

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: English, United Kingdom

Occupations: Writer, Teacher, Novelist, Screenwriter

Total quotes: 1

“There were just all those evenings we sat together and it doesn't seem possible that it will never be again. It was like we were the only two people in the world. No one will ever understand how happy we were...I could sit there all night watching her, just the shape of her head and the way the hair fell from it with a special curve, so graceful it was, like the shape of a swallow-tail. It was like a veil or a cloud, it would lie like silk strands all untidy and loose but lovely over her shoulders, I wish I had words to describe it like a poet would or an artist. She had a way of throwing it back when it had fallen too much forward, it was just a simple natural movement. Sometimes I wanted to say to her, please do it again, please let your hair fall forward and toss it back. Only of course it would have been stupid. Everything she did was delicate like that. Just turning a page. Standing up or sitting down, drinking, smoking, anything. Even when she did things considered ugly, like yawning or stretching, she made it seem pretty. The truth was she couldn't do ugly things. She was too beautiful.”

— John Fowles, The Collector

Tagged: beauty, Grace, Delicate, Love

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