The Collectors’ Society Quotes

“In paginis mundus invenimus. In verbis vitam inveniimus. In pages, we find words. In words, we find life.”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“Knowledge is the sharpest of weapons.”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“There are multiple ways to label people, as you may well know. In the literate world, we can simplify this in that there are readers and non-readers. Within the readers category, we can further label people by how passionate they are with the books they choose. Some people escape into the stories they read. Some read for purpose or information. Some read out of resentment or necessity. But let us, in this moment, focus on those who find books to be an escape or an extension of their imagination. These readers see, within their mind’s eye, the characters and settings in the pages below their fingers. They feel the emotions woven between the words. They live through every heartache, every embrace, every terror. Books, to these people, become tangible, living things. The characters they read become genuine souls.” A half smile curves his lips. “People like this are often accused of living within their fantasies. They’re said to have their noses stuck in books. But the reality is that some of these people actually do escape into books.”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“The most truthful answers are found through observation. Words allow lies.”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“Knowledge is always one of the fiercest of advantages a lady can have.”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“Authors can only allow readers to learn so much about their characters. As much as they try to build someone three dimensionally on a page, words are still limited and subject to imagination and interpretation”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far.”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“It’s hard to hear others when your own words overwhelm your thoughts.”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“Each of us here has a story, but it’s not necessarily the one people think they know.”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“Without risks, we never really know if something’s worth the trouble.”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“Sometimes,” he told me, “you can have something, hold it in your hands or feel it in your bones, and still never understand the working mechanisms behind it.”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“people who can’t control their emotions are not valuable allies in battle.”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“I tell myself: This time could be different. I rationalize: It's not like the past can be changed. I fear: I lost everything before. And yet... I hope.”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“Sometimes our pasts are chains we cannot let go of, even if the key is in our hands. They define us in ways we resent, and yet they are somewhat precious, too. Because, logically, we understand that our pasts have made us who we are, even if we want nothing more to close our eyes to them.”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“~ A doorway can lead a person into new spaces, and can allow in loved ones, enemies, new acquaintances, or horrible things that we never dare dream about. They can remove us from that we've just left, or present us a firm wall of acceptance we may or may not wish to embrace.”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“They are people who literally enter books.”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“I can't help but stir the pot. "We discussed books and body parts and their functionality. It was a most invigorating discussion. I wonder, though, who the breast of the organization are? Or perhaps the testicles? Personally, I would love to know who the arse is. Is that person the fool of the group?”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“No creature is completely selfless. Not even those whose hearts are more gold than tin.” Finn”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“Our great country has seen better days. That’s the honest truth if there ever was one.” “Are”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“Love, it seems, can be drawn from a bottomless well, and for many different kinds of thirst. “I’m”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“The fog dissipates. The water turns cold. The door to the shower opens, and the knobs are turned to the off position and he climbs in with me, him fully clothed in contrast to my shivering, blue skin, and we sit there together, his arms around me, until I can breathe again. AT”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“Girl time, I’m also learning, can be emotionally exhausting and more than a bit confusing. She’s”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“In pages, we find worlds. In words, we find life.” How”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“you can have something, hold it in your hands or feel it in your bones, and still never understand the working mechanisms behind it.” Isn’t”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“Frabjous. I keep wedging that foot of mine deeper into my mouth. “A”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“I was continuously a failure in his eyes, the worst of his pupils who just couldn’t seem to learn her lessons.”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society

“too many suspicions or deeply seated feelings are scattered amongst memories better suited to watercolor paintings abandoned during rainstorms.”
― Heather Lyons, The Collectors’ Society