Top 500 Erin Morgenstern Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You need to understand your limitations so you can overcome them.”

— Erin Morgenstern

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

— Erin Morgenstern

3. “The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”

— Erin Morgenstern

4. “Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.”

— Erin Morgenstern

5. “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.”

— Erin Morgenstern

6. “All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.”

— Erin Morgenstern

7. “To be rather than to seem.”

— Erin Morgenstern

8. “You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”

— Erin Morgenstern

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

— Erin Morgenstern

10. “I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.”

— Erin Morgenstern

11. “Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them.”

— Erin Morgenstern

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

— Erin Morgenstern

13. “But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.”

— Erin Morgenstern

14. “Sometimes I write what I can’t paint, and I paint what I can’t write. I use a different part of the brain.”

— Erin Morgenstern

15. “Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.”

— Erin Morgenstern

16. “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

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

— Erin Morgenstern

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

— Erin Morgenstern

19. “People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to.”

— Erin Morgenstern

20. “You wish to sail the Starless Sea and breathe the haunted air.”

— Erin Morgenstern

21. “You told me love was fickle and fleeting.”

— Erin Morgenstern

22. “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.”

— Erin Morgenstern

23. “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

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24. “Trespassers Will Be Exsanguinated.”

— Erin Morgenstern

25. “He forgets that he was someone’s dream once, himself.”

— Erin Morgenstern

26. “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.”

— Erin Morgenstern

27. “Fate still owes me a dance.”

— Erin Morgenstern

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

— Erin Morgenstern

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

— Erin Morgenstern

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30. “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.”

— Erin Morgenstern

31. “Tarot is just stories on cards.”

— Erin Morgenstern

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32. “I think looking forward will be better than looking back.”

— Erin Morgenstern

33. “A girl Lost in the woods is a different sort of creature than a girl who walks purposefully through the trees even though she does not know her way. This girl in the woods is not lost. She is exploring.”

— Erin Morgenstern

34. “Once, very long ago, Time fell in love with Fate.”

— Erin Morgenstern

35. “We are all stardust and stories.”

— Erin Morgenstern

36. “It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.”

— Erin Morgenstern

37. “This is not where our story ends, he writes. This is only where it changes.”

— Erin Morgenstern

38. “Time passes. Things change.”

— Erin Morgenstern

39. “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.”

— Erin Morgenstern

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

— Erin Morgenstern

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

— Erin Morgenstern

42. “We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.”

— Erin Morgenstern

43. “I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.”

— Erin Morgenstern

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44. “I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.”

— Erin Morgenstern

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

— Erin Morgenstern

46. “Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.”

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47. “Their story is only just beginning. And no story ever truly ends as long as it is told.”

— Erin Morgenstern

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

— Erin Morgenstern

49. “I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it’s grounded in reality.”

— Erin Morgenstern

50. “You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul.”

— Erin Morgenstern