Erin Morgenstern Quotes

To be rather than to seem.

...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

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.

We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.

I wished for her,” he says.

Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.

A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.

That man has no shadow.

You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough.

But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.

...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.

I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.

Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.

Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.

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.

I'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.

You will be fine, ' the fortune teller says. 'There may be decisions to make and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

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

But you built me dreams instead...

My train was late that day. the day I saw you drop your notebook. Had it been on schedule we never would have met. Maybe we were never meant to.

The future is never set in stone.

They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic.

You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is a dream.

I tried to explain as much as I could, " Poppet says. "I think I made an analogy about cake.""Well, that must have worked, " Widget says. "Who doesn't like a good cake analogy?

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

It's not a real name, " she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.

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Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon, or a wolf and a scarlet-clad little girl. And is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

The false face had been handsome, yes, but consciously so. As though he was too aware of his own attractivensss, something she found distinctly unappealing.