Top 100 Erin Morgenstern Quotes
#1. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. - PROSPERO, THE TEMPEST, ACT IV, SCENE 1
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#3. I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.
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#4. It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it," Tsukiko says. "It is too familiar. Too comfortable.
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#6. PROSPERO THE ENCHANTER uses a pocket knife to slit his daughter's fingertips open, one by one, watching wordlessly as she cries until calm enough to heal them, drips of blood slowly creeping backward. The skin melds together, swirls of fingerprint ridges finding one another
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#7. Celia laughs and a curl of her hair falls across her cheek. Marco tentatively moves to brush it off her face, but before his fingers reach her, she pushes herself off the ledge, her silver gown a billowing cloud as she falls onto the pile of jewel-toned cushions.
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#8. He is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been before
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#11. Though I have seen a great deal of the sights, traveled a number of the available paths, there are always corners that remain unexplored, doors that remain unopened.
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#12. Ah," remarked one guest when the topic arose. "You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell the time.
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#13. I wanted you to have a place where you felt safe enough to cry if I could not be with you.
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#14. Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon ... is not the dragon the hero of his own story?
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#15. I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.
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#16. Have you tried the cinnamon things?" Poppet asks. "They're rather new. What are they called, Widge?"
"Fantastically delicious cinnamon things?
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#17. It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.
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#18. This card entitles the holder to unlimited admission
is imprinted on one side in black ink, and on the reverse it reads:
Le Cirque des Reves
and in smaller letters beneath that:
Chandresh Christophe Lefevere, Proprietor
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#19. I am tired of everyone keeping their secrets so well that they get other people killed. We are all involved in your game, and it seems we are not as easily repaired as teacups.
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#20. She leans forward and kisses him, not on the cheek, as she has a handful of times before, but on the lips, and Bailey knows in that moment that he will follow her anywhere. Poppet
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#21. I've missed you, he whispers softly. The air between them is electric as he leans in, gently brushing his lips against her neck. In the next room, the guests complain about the sudden increase in temperature. Fans are drawn from colorful bags, fluttering like tropical birds.
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#22. They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.
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#23. Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.
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#25. Writing in a near frenzy is wonderful and freeing, but for me, it did not result in a nice, shiny novel. Instead, what I have is a mess.
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#26. I saw in details while she saw in scope. Not seeing the scope is why I am here and she is not. I took each element spearately and never looked to see that they never did fit together properly
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#27. I thought a circus environment would be an interesting venue to explore, where you didn't just have one tent with three rings and a show going on but where you could explore different things in different tents.
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#28. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.
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#29. I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.
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#30. Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.
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#32. Follow your dreams Bailey. Be they Harvard or somehing else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself
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#33. they start in the ice garden, through the twins grow impatient with leisurely pace that celia prefers to take around the frozen trees. before they have traveled halfway through the space they are begging to ride the carousel instead.
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#34. Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.
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#35. It's a wonderful sort of feeling when people want to spend more time in a world you created.
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#36. Marco knows he does not have the time to push her away, so he pulls her close, burying his face in her hair, his bowler hat torn from his head by the wind ... "Trust me," Celia whispers in his ear, and he stops fighting it, forgetting everything but her.
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#37. Mercury. Lead. Antimony. A cresent moon sits at the nape of her neck; and Egyptian ankh near her collarbone. There are other symbols as well: Norse runes, Chinese characters.
It is part of who I was, who I am, and who I will be.
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#38. Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.
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#39. The sensation reminds him of the first snow of winter, for those first few hours when everything is blanketed in white, soft and quiet.
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#40. They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, and I am simply a bird in their midst.
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#41. The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.
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#42. I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.
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#43. When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different - and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.
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#44. I used to think that if she were gone, you would come back to me."
"If she were gone, I would be nothing," Marco says. "You should think better of yourself than to settle for that."
They stand in silence on the empty street, the chill of the night air falling between them.
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#45. Whatever you wish to pay for a glimpse of your future," the fortune-teller says. Bailey stops to consider this for a moment. It is strange, but fair.
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#46. I made a wish on this tree years ago," Marco says.
"What did you wish for?" Bailey asks.
Marco leans forward and whispers in Bailey's ear. "I wished for her.
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#47. It would be so simple to let go.
It would be so much easier to let go.
So much less painful.
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#48. He spends the majority of the evening in the company of Celia Bowen, whose elaborate gown changes color, shifting through a rainbow of hues to compliment whoever she is closest to.
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#49. Kelly Link is inimitable. Her stories are like nothing else, dark yet sparkling with her unique brand of fairy dust. This is the most marvelous kind of trouble to get in.
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#50. I don't have as tight a time limit anymore but I still write in long marathon sessions and then I won't write for a while, I'm not a write-every-day writer.
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#52. The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.
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#53. Dear Miss Bowen, he begins. He hopes that he will receive another letter in turn.
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#54. Why haven't you asked me how I do my tricks?" Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not simply being polite about the matter. "Because I do not wish to know," he says. "I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better remain in the dark.
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#55. People don't pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to
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#56. During the hours spent watching the sheep as they wander aimlessly around their fields, he even wishes that someone would come and take him away, but wishes on sheep appear to work no better than wishes on stars.
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#57. I am already married, she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar.
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#58. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.
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#59. You look like a ghost," Bailey says. He can think of no better way to describe it.
"You appear the same way to me, so which of us is real?
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#60. Secrets have power," Widget begins. "And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well.
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#61. And over the following months some of the articles are reprinted in other German papers, and eventually they are translated and printed in Sweden and Denmark and France. One article finds its way into a London paper, printed under the title "Nights at the Circus." It
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#62. If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely write it all at once, though, so I could work on it as a whole and not broken into individual volumes.
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#63. I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.
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#64. Are we going to discuss whatever it is you are here to discuss instead of dancing around it?" he asks. "I was never a particularly good dancer.
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#66. It is a matter of perspective, between opponent and partner ... You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely.
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#67. It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.
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#69. The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping through your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you towards the future.
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#71. How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?" Celia asks after a while.
"Very carefully," Marco answers.
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#72. ... there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all ...
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#73. I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write.
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#74. The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.
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#75. As you walk farther into the room it becomes a field of endless streetlamps, the stripes repeating in fractal patterns, over and over and over.
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#76. Because I do not wish to know," he says. "I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.
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#77. Should you choose your questions more carefully, you may receive more satisfying answers.
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#79. I know, I'm sorry, "Bailey says.
"What does exsanguinated mean?"
The girl smiles.
"It means draining all your blood," she says. "But they don't actually do that, I don't think.
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#80. This is a typical Tsukiko response, one that does not truly answer the question. Isobel does not pry.
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#81. That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst.
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#82. I knew that, and still it surprised me. How long I was willing to wait for something that was only a possibility.
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#83. I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.
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#84. By the time he reaches the farm, he is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been the day before. He may not be certain what any of it means, but for now he does not think that it much matters.
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#85. You cannot stop things. You can only be prepared for them to happen.
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#87. you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold. The
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#88. That is a complicated matter. The heart of the tale and the ideas behind it are simple. Time has altered and condensed their nuances, made them more than story, greater than the sums of their parts. But that requires time. The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.
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#89. You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.
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#90. The Cloud Maze.
An Excursion in Dimension A Climb Though the Firmament; There Is No Beginning There Is No End
Enter Where You Please
Leave When You Wish
Have No Fear of Falling
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#91. The breaking is the easy part. The pulling back together is the problem.
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#92. People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.
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#93. There are no longer simple tales with quests and beasts and happy endings. The quests lack clarity of goal or path. The beasts take different forms and are difficult to recognize for what they are. And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things
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#94. I speak languages with more ease than I read or write them, she explains. It is something in the feel of the sounds. I could attempt to put them on paper but I am sure the result would be appalling.
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#95. I know, interference is one of the very few things that is apparently against the rules. I do not intend to interfere, I intend to learn his systems so I can stop having to constantly manage so much of the circus.
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#96. Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.
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#97. It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.
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#98. I believe you have my umbrella he says, almost out of breath but wearing a grin that has too much wolf in it to be properly sheepish.
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#99. Do you remember all of your audiences?" Marco asks.
"Not all of them," Celia says. "But I remember the people who look at me the way you do."
"What way might that be?"
"As though they cannot decide if they are afraid of me or they want to kiss me."
" I am not afraid of you," Marco says.
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#100. Figs that drip with honey, sugar blown into curls and flowers.
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