Top 100 Morgenstern Quotes
#1. Princess. By S. Morgenstern. It's a kids' classic. Tell him I'll quiz him on it when I'm back next week and that he doesn't have to like it or anything, but if he doesn't, tell him I'll kill myself. Give him that message exactly please; I wouldn't want to apply any extra pressure or anything.
William Goldman
#2. Dear Madame Morgenstern,
As absurd as it sounds, I've been thinking of you since we parted. I want to take you into my arms, tell you a million things, ask you a million questions. I want to touch your throat and unbutton the pearl button at your neck
Julie Orringer
#3. I am Valentine's son. Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern. You never had any right to that name. You're a ghost. And a pretender.
Cassandra Clare
#4. That table is mahogany!" cried Roderick Morgenstern, looking appalled.
Cassandra Clare
#5. Willingly Andras followed him into the curved halls of calculus, where the problem of Madame Morgenstern could not exist because it could not be described by an equation.
Julie Orringer
#6. My first contact with game theory was a popular article in 'Fortune Magazine' which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter, and when I studied mathematics, I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it.
Reinhard Selten
#7. The Princess Bride
S. Morgenstern's
Classic Tale of True Love
and High Adventure
You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.
William Goldman
#8. After preliminary work by a number of other distinguished mathematicians and economists, game theory as a systematic theory started with von Neumann and Morgenstern's book, 'Theory of Games and Economic Behavior,' published in 1944.
John Harsanyi
#9. But Jocelyn Morgenstern was not the kind of woman who wept, not the kind of woman who broke, or Valentine would have broken her long since.
Cassandra Clare
#10. Valentine!"
"You mean father. I despise this modern habit of calling one's parents by their names."
"What I want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name."
- Clary Fray and Valentine Morgenstern (City of Ashes)
Cassandra Clare
#11. Even the devil was once an angel"
- Sebastian Morgenstern
Cassandra Clare
#12. Since the demon threat is invisible to mundanes, they must assign the threat to others of their own kind. They place the face of their enemy onto the face of their neighbor, and thus are generations of misery assured.
-Valentine Morgenstern
Cassandra Clare
#13. Roderick Morgenstern, who Magnus thought truly deserved to have a name that sounded like a goat chewing gravel, stood up happily to continue his speech.
Cassandra Clare
#14. Funny thing- Morgenstern's folk's were named Max and Valerie and his father was a doctor.
William Goldman
#15. Excuse me, Bane?" said Roderick Morgenstern. "Are you attending?"
"I'm so sorry," Magnus said politely. "Somebody incredibly attractive just came into the room, and I ceased to pay attention to a word you were saying.
Cassandra Clare
#16. It almost contradicts itself," she says after a moment. "It's as if there is love and loss at the same time, together in a kind of beautiful pain.
Eric Morgenstern
#17. You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.
Erin Morgenstern
#19. To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road, is the noblest task of the future.
Christian Morgenstern
#20. 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.
Erin Morgenstern
#21. 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
#22. 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.
Erin Morgenstern
#23. ... there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all ...
Erin Morgenstern
#24. How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?" Celia asks after a while.
"Very carefully," Marco answers.
Erin Morgenstern
#26. If modern civilised man had to keep the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.
Christian Morgenstern
#27. 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.
Erin Morgenstern
#29. I saw Jonathan after he faced the fear demon, you know. It showed itself to him as you. That told me all I needed to know. The greatest fear in Jonathan's life is the love he feels for his sister.
Cassandra Clare
#30. Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.
Christian Morgenstern
#31. 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.
Erin Morgenstern
#32. And I know, too, that recognizing one's mistakes does not erase them.
Susie Morgenstern
#33. 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
#35. You can't love everyone. We're already lucky to love the ones we love.
Susie Morgenstern
#36. So what's their plan, hitting Sebastian over the head with Jace until he passes out?
Cassandra Clare
#38. I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.
Erin Morgenstern
#39. 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.
Erin Morgenstern
#40. 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
Erin Morgenstern
#41. Secrets have power," Widget begins. "And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well.
Erin Morgenstern
#42. 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?
Erin Morgenstern
#43. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.
Erin Morgenstern
#44. I am already married, she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar.
Erin Morgenstern
#45. 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.
Erin Morgenstern
#46. People don't pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to
Erin Morgenstern
#47. 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.
Erin Morgenstern
#48. Dear Miss Bowen, he begins. He hopes that he will receive another letter in turn.
Erin Morgenstern
#50. The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.
Erin Morgenstern
#51. 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.
Erin Morgenstern
#52. Lord Raziel. Surely yoy would not have allowed such a thing as a ritual by wich you might be summoned to exist if you did not intend to be summoned. We Nephilim are your children. We need your guidance
Cassandra Clare
#53. For the first time Valentine glanced down at the body of Brother Jeremiah. "I did kill him, and the rest of the Silent Brothers as well. I had to. They had something I needed."
"What? A sense of decency?
Cassandra Clare
#54. Figs that drip with honey, sugar blown into curls and flowers.
Erin Morgenstern
#55. 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.
Erin Morgenstern
#56. 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.
Erin Morgenstern
#57. Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.
Christian Morgenstern
#58. 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.
Erin Morgenstern
#59. As you have seen the treachery of love because of me, I have seen my cruelty because of you. But you learned mercy from me, and from you I learned resilience. As you came to understand me enough to know the value I placed on selfless love, I understand your nature better.
D. Morgenstern
#60. Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.
Erin Morgenstern
#61. 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.
Erin Morgenstern
#62. 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.
Erin Morgenstern
#63. 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
Erin Morgenstern
#64. That's the way it is--you have a thought, a dream, an idea in your head . . . and you do nothing to make it happen. Then one day, boom, just like that, you get up and go.
Susie Morgenstern
#65. 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.
Erin Morgenstern
#66. The breaking is the easy part. The pulling back together is the problem.
Erin Morgenstern
#67. 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
Erin Morgenstern
#68. Because I do not wish to know," he says. "I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.
Erin Morgenstern
#69. (Sebastian) "See, there you go. You're always looking at me like that."
"Like what?"
"Like I burn down animal shelters for fun and light my cigarettes with orphans.
Cassandra Clare
#70. 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.
Erin Morgenstern
#72. Heroes save worlds," Clary said. "They don't destroy them.
Cassandra Clare
#73. 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
Erin Morgenstern
#75. You cannot stop things. You can only be prepared for them to happen.
Erin Morgenstern
#76. There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.
Christian Morgenstern
#77. 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.
Erin Morgenstern
#78. I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.
Erin Morgenstern
#79. I knew that, and still it surprised me. How long I was willing to wait for something that was only a possibility.
Erin Morgenstern
#80. Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.
Cassandra Clare
#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.
Erin Morgenstern
#82. This is a typical Tsukiko response, one that does not truly answer the question. Isobel does not pry.
Erin Morgenstern
#83. Don't tell me you aren't even a little glad to see me, Mother," Sebastian said, and
though his words were pleading, his voice was flat. "Aren't I everything you could want in
a son?" He spread his arms wide. "Strong, handsome, looks just like dear old Dad.
Cassandra Clare
#84. ...the facts of economic life cannot be comprehensively described in terms of statistics.
Oskar Morgenstern
#85. 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.
Erin Morgenstern
#86. Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.
D. Morgenstern
#87. I have given everything for this cause. My wife. My children. I have not withheld my sons. I have given everything I have for this - everything.
Cassandra Clare
#89. Should you choose your questions more carefully, you may receive more satisfying answers.
Erin Morgenstern
#91. The sensation reminds him of the first snow of winter, for those first few hours when everything is blanketed in white, soft and quiet.
Erin Morgenstern
#92. 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.
Erin Morgenstern
#95. Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.
Erin Morgenstern
#96. In an industry afflicted by sequelitis, it has taken John Boorman almost three decades to make the sequel to his much-cherished Hope and Glory, but Queen and Country turns out to be well worth the wait.
Joe Morgenstern
#97. They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.
Erin Morgenstern
#98. 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.
Erin Morgenstern
#99. How horrible to think what we may wish for, lay in anguish for, may be within our reach but we are unable to see them.
D. Morgenstern
#100. I've long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special.
Joe Morgenstern
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