Erin Morgenstern Quotes

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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?

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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.

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He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. I miss you, Isobel says as he leaves, but the sentiment is crushed by the clatter of the beaded curtain falling closed behind him.

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You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.

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Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.

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

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How are you managing to keep everyone from aging? Celia asks after a while. Very carefully, Marco answers.

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I made a wish on this tree years ago," Marco says. "What did you wish for?" Bailey asks. Marco leans forward and whispers in Bailey's ear. "I wished for her.

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I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.

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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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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.

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The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it's still there, the events and things that pushed you to where you are now.

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Marco knows he does not have the time to push her away, so he pulls her close, burying his face in her hair, his bowler hat torn from his head by the wind...."Trust me," Celia whispers in his ear, and he stops fighting it, forgetting everything but her.

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Trapped in silence, Marco traces apologies and adorations across Celia's body with his tongue. Mutely expressing all the things he cannot speak aloud. He finds other ways to tell her, his fingers leaving faint trails of ink in their wake. He savors every sound he elicits from her. The entire room trembles as they come together. And though there are a great many fragile objects contained within it, nothing breaks.

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Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

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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

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

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Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work. I'm in love with her. I am sorry to hear that, he says. It will make the challenge a great deal more difficult for you. We have been playing at this for more than a decade, when does it end? It ends when there is a victor.

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

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

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There is so much that glows in the circus, from flames to lanterns to stars. I have heard the expression trick of the light applied to sights within Le Cirque des Reves so frequently that I sometimes suspect the entirety of the circus is itself a complex illusion of illumination.

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He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure, he is not sure what does.

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

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Nothing's impossible," Poppet responds. She smiles at him and jumps, her red hair trailing out behind her as she falls.

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I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister.

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