Bridget Collins Quotes

#1. Memories,' she said, at last. 'Not people, Emmett. We take memories and bind them. Whatever people can't bear to remember. Whatever they can't live with. We take those memories and put them where they can't do any harm. That's all books are

#2. something inside me fell apart: like a pot that had been broken years ago but somehow managed to cling to it shape until someone nudged it

#3. Books want to burn,' he says. 'They go up like that because - they're unstable, memories don't want to stay...

#4. There's a growing trade in fakes, you know. Does that concern you? He paused, but he didn't seem surprised not to get an answer. I've never seen one - well, as far as I know - but I'm curious. Could one really tell the difference? Novels, they call them. They must be much cheaper to produce. You can copy them, you see. use the same story over and over, and as long as you're careful how you sell them, you can get away with it. It makes one wonder who would write them. People who enjoy imagining misery, I suppose. People who have no scruples about dishonesty. People who can spend days writing a long sad lie without going insane.

#5. Who the hell are you?"
"I'm the witch's apprentice. Who the hell are you?