The Bibliomancer's Daughter Quotes

“It is true. The idea of bibliomancy is that a divine book guides one. With stichomancy , as Daisy so eloquently put it a moment ago, the book need not be divine”
― Melissa Bourbon, Murder in Devil's Cove

“Pippin marveled at the vastness of the collection. How many stories did the pages of all these books hold? But not only that, what stories did the books themselves tell? Who had held these volumes? Who had loved them, hidden under a sheet, flashlight in hand, to read them into the wee hours of the morning, or screeched from a shocking twist? Imaginary people came to life through the words on the page. Book boyfriends, best friends, worlds in which people wanted to live”
― Melissa Bourbon, Murder in Devil's Cove

“Her father had loved books as much as her mother had despised them”
― Melissa Bourbon, Murder in Devil's Cove

“Unfortunately, emotions didn't respond to logic. She couldn't just press a button and make them go away. She was learning to live with them. To embrace them, even”
― Melissa Bourbon, Murder in Devil's Cove

“All books had a history. All books told stories - those written on the pages, and those between the lines”
― Melissa Bourbon, Murder in Devil's Cove