Erin Morgenstern Quotes

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.

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

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

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

Tarot is just stories on cards.

Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.

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.

The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.

I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.

You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.

Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.

The sensation reminds him of the first snow of winter, for those first few hours when everything is blanketed in white, soft and quiet.

It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.

Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

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?

You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.

Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.

The circus arrives without warning.

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.

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

Misdirection is one of my strengths.

The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.

Have you tried the cinnamon things?" Poppet asks. "They're rather new. What are they called, Widge?" "Fantastically delicious cinnamon things?

I think looking forward will be better than looking back.

They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.

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

I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.

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

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul

So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.

I don;t think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.

But you built me dreams instead.

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.

We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.

Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.

And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.

I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.

If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.

I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.