Erin Morgenstern Quotes

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.”

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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.”

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6. “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

7. “To be rather than to seem.”

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

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

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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. “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

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

— Erin Morgenstern

13. “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

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

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

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

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17. “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

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

— Erin Morgenstern

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

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

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

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

— Erin Morgenstern

24. “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

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

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26. “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

27. “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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28. “Tarot is just stories on cards.”

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29. “Trespassers Will Be Exsanguinated.”

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

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31. “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

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

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

— Erin Morgenstern

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

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

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36. “I have you here, all around me. I sit in the Ice Garden to get a hint of this, this way that you make me feel. I felt it even before I knew who you were, and every time I think it could not possibly get any stronger, it does.”

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

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

— Erin Morgenstern

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

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

— Erin Morgenstern

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

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

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43. “Marco moves to close the distance between them, kissing away her tears before catching her lip with his own. As he kisses her, the bonfire glows brighter. The acrobats catch the light perfectly as they spin. The entire circus sparkles, dazzling every patron.”

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44. “I cannot let a place that is so important to so many people fade away. Something that is wonder and comfort and mystery all together that they have nowhere else. If you had that, wouldn’t you want to keep it?”

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

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46. “The circus arrives without warning.”

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

— Erin Morgenstern

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

— Erin Morgenstern

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49. “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

50. “I don’t think there’s anything wrong being a dreamer.”

— Erin Morgenstern