Morgenstern The Night Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head.

Marjane Satrapi

#6. One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#7. 'Finding Nemo' was originally shot in 3D.

John Lasseter

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

Erin Morgenstern

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

Erin Morgenstern

#10. 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.

Erin Morgenstern

#11. 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.

Erin Morgenstern

#12. 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

#13. 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

#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.

Erin Morgenstern

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Erin Morgenstern

#18. You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.

John Irving

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

Erin Morgenstern

#20. There's this funny thing with pilots that you have to sign the contract to do the whole job before you're even offered the part. And they make about a million pilots a year, but hardly any of them get turned into series.

Eve Best

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. It bothers him most at times like this, in the bottom of the brandy bottle and the quiet of the night.

Erin Morgenstern

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

Erin Morgenstern

#25. 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

#26. Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.

Aldo Leopold

#27. 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