The Story Collector Quotes

“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“There’s a fear in all of us, that we’ll lose the relationship. But I suppose, we end up losing ourselves instead.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“that to lose one’s intellect was akin to letting seeds wither and die in the dark ground”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“The moon had grown tired of her antics and pulled the clouds back over its face, leaving Sarah in total darkness once more.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“It felt oddly satisfying to be frightened by something real, instead of the fears inside her own head.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“Life was like a great painting; if you only focused on one part, you would miss the full picture.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“Our wills and fate do so contrary run,’ she said.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“There was something spiritual about trees that seemed to bring about an inner calm.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“You made your plans, but life had other ideas and somehow you had to make peace with that.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“I have never felt so enamoured of any boy in my life and here she was, ruining it.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“my mother would argue that to lose one’s intellect is akin to letting seeds wither and die in the dark ground, and she routinely wins the argument.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“feel as though I am part of it; as much as the river flowing through it or the ever-changing clouds passing overhead. We alter together with each season, transforming, yet always staying true to our nature.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“Grief is a dark labrynth.”
― Evie Woods, The Story Collector

“His final words were the most poignant of all. ‘If we lose our stories,’ he wrote”
― Evie Woods, The Story Collector

“anything.”
― Evie Woods, The Story Collector

“Krauss?”
― Evie Woods, The Story Collector

“They don’t think like us, nor do they feel the way we do. It could be why they’re so drawn to the human world, interfering and trying to capture what they cannot have.”
― Evie Woods, The Story Collector

“to lose one’s intellect is akin to letting seeds wither and die in the dark ground,”
― Evie Woods, The Story Collector

“You know they used to say that if you were stood leaning on the half door, you were passing time; but if you were stood leaning against an open doorway, you were wasting time!”
― Evie Woods, The Story Collector

“there is a connection between the realm of the spirit and our natural world.”
― Evie Woods, The Story Collector

“You made your plans”
― Evie Woods, The Story Collector

“It will never go away completely”
― Evie Woods, The Story Collector

“The grief that consumed her mind and her heart had taken away her appetite for creating anything.”
― Evie Woods, The Story Collector

“Grief is like a hard lump inside of you,’ she said”
― Evie Woods, The Story Collector

“We alter together with each season”
― Evie Woods, The Story Collector

“Before the wake, we were all supposed to go in and say our last goodbyes, but I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t bear to see her … changed. I was terrified of how she would look and couldn’t bear having that image of her in my mind forever.”
― Evie Woods, The Story Collector

“If I’m honest, I thought it would kill me. The grief. But you know what’s worse? It doesn’t kill you. You go on, living … surviving, whether you want to or not.”
― Evie Woods, The Story Collector

“Yet sometimes”
― Evie Woods, The Story Collector

“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
― Evie Woods, The Story Collector

“Fairyland” is a realm or a place containing the souls of the dead, in company with all other manner of spirit, demon or god. An invisible”
― Evie Woods, The Story Collector