There are fourteen errors in the use of punctuation marks in the following text. Rewrite the text correcting the errors.

Thats an apple log”, he said, “it burns the prettiest of any wood.”
We were very close. He was suddenly impelled to speak of things he had not spoken of before nor had I cared to ask him. “You look a little bit like my mother”, he said, “especially in the dark by the fire.” “But you were only four Jerry when you came here you have remembered how she looked all these years". “My mother lives in Mannville”, he said.