Erin Morgenstern The Night Circus Quotes

#1. I feel 'The Night Circus' has a complete story arc in one book. I like it as a single volume. It feels complete to me, and I wouldn't want to stretch it out into something it's not.

Erin Morgenstern

#2. Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.

Edgar Allan Poe

#3. Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.

Erin Morgenstern

#4. The thrill of being surrounded by something wondrous and fantastical, only magnified and focused directly at her. The feel of his skin against hers reverberates across her entire body, though his fingers remain entwined in hers.

Erin Morgenstern

#5. It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.

Erin Morgenstern

#6. If we want to go Fast than go Alone but if We want to go Far, lets go Together..adopt the "We" spirit..Life isn't all about "Selfie

Kalon Jackson

#7. He wants to know everything about her.
How she spends her time when not performing.
How she interacts with her audiences.
How she takes her tea.

Erin Morgenstern

#8. Is it not that bad to be trapped somewhere, then? Depending on where you're trapped?"
"I suppose it depends on how much you like the place you're trapped in," Widget says.
"And how much you like whoever you're stuck there with," Poppet adds, kicking his black boot with her white one.

Erin Morgenstern

#9. Now you know about it, and you can do whatever you want to it.

Erin Morgenstern

#10. Magic is secreand secrets are magic...

Erin Morgenstern

#11. This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

Erin Morgenstern

#12. Too much respect for other people's wisdom will make you depreciate your own.

Robert Greene

#13. 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.

Erin Morgenstern

#14. Could you do such things when you were a dancer?' Tara asks her, as Tsukiko pulls a leg up impossibly far over her head.
'I would have had a much busier social calendar if I could,' Mme. Padva replies with a shake of her head.

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#15. I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.' 'But you built me dreams instead.

Erin Morgenstern

#16. Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

Erin Morgenstern

#17. 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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#18. The Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed - but to be practiced.

J.C. Ryle

#19. I wanted you to have a place where you felt safe enough to cry if I could not be with you.

Erin Morgenstern

#20. Instead of getting an iPad, I now use my iPhone with a giant magnifying glass attached to my face.

Tony Hsieh

#21. I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser.

Mike Huckabee

#22. I am, like anybody else, full of contradictions and personality traits, and I don't know which ones to speak from as a stand-up or what aspects of myself to ask an audience to identify with.

Andy Daly

#23. I knew that, and still it surprised me. How long I was willing to wait for something that was only a possibility.

Erin Morgenstern

#24. 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.

Erin Morgenstern