The Haunting Season Quotes

“She has to be careful what she puts in it, doesn’t she. Everything turns so loud, once it’s there.”
― Bridget Collins, The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

“Six wasn’t offended by the same things other people were, she pointed out, so without that frame of reference it was a guessing game, and personally she didn’t feel it ought to be the main business of her life trying to work it out. Thaniel agreed.”
― Bridget Collins, The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

“he had only been in England for a few years and you could not learn English fluently from Japanese and vice versa in much less than ten. Thaniel knew that painfully thoroughly. He always thought he was getting pretty good, but then someone told him about politics and all his brain would come up with was that he liked octopuses.”
― Bridget Collins, The Haunting Season: Eight Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

“But it is one thing to know what snow is, and quite another to understand it. To see it blanket the entirety of the world overnight, to feel it pillowing your steps, creeping up over your boots and flooding your stockings with its icy bite. The ways it plays with sound, batting it about like a cat with a mouse, and the fearful crunch like tiny bones beneath your feet.”
― Bridget Collins, The Haunting Season: Eight Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights