Collector Quotes

“I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“Everything remembered, everything thought, all awareness becomes base, frame, pedestal, lock and key of his ownership. Period, region, craft, previous owners - all, for the true collector, merge in each one of his possessions into a magical encyclopaedia whose quintessence is the fate of his object.”
― Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project

“Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order.”
― Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

“Everything his parents repressed, Severin contracted and kept, collected almost, with the ambition to revive it when needed.”
― Laura Gentile, Within Paravent Walls

“Eventually the Collector from the prophecy would be born.”
― Jessica Fortunato, The Sin Collector: Thomas

“I’m beginning to realise that I’m either overly sentimental, or am a hoarder who struggles to part with things. In all honesty, I’m probably both.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“—that exquisite sensual pleasure of collectors, who are a tactile species—”
― Georges Rodenbach, The Bells of Bruges

“I'm a consoomer. Instead of wall-to-wall Funko Pops, I collect ducks, and I store them all in a pen at night where they can be on display to inspire jealous desire in foxes, coyotes, and Miss Marple.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“To a true collector, the acquisition of an old book is its rebirth,” Oscar quoted, absent self-consciousness.”
― Sheridan Hay, The Secret of Lost Things

“Edwin Carson is the greatest living authority on precious stones in the world. The only reason why he isn't acclaimed as such in public and in the Press is that his methods of collecting his jewels--he's got an amazing collection, I believe--is not supposed to be all that it might be.”
― Alan Melville, Weekend at Thrackley

“I can't deny the skill would be a valuable asset to my collection.”
― Rae Knightly, Ben Archer and the Alien Skill

“Remember when I told you I would marry none but a warrior, Collector?" his Rajput Princess whispered as their lips parted. "And it's a warrior I have won.”
― Santosh Kalwar, The Royal Regiment

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― Paperback Warrior