Top 500 Erin Morgenstern Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “These doors will sing. Silent siren songs for those who seek what lies behind them.”

— Erin Morgenstern

452. “The Queen of the Bees has been waiting for you Tales hidden within to be told Bring her a key that has never been forged And another made only of gold.”

— Erin Morgenstern

453. “Drowning Ophelia made with gin and lemon and fennel syrup, served with a sprig of rosemary and a napkin with an appropriate Hamlet quote printed on it.”

— Erin Morgenstern

454. “They live and they work. They consume art and stories and create new art and new stories to add to the shelves and the walls. They find friends and lovers. They put on performances and play games and weave community out of camaraderie.”

— Erin Morgenstern

455. “Not in the way that one smiles at a random member of the audience when one is in the middle of performing circus tricks with unusually talented kittens but in the way that one smiles when one recognizes someone they have not seen in some time.”

— Erin Morgenstern

456. “Important things hurt sometimes.” Dorian smiles at the statement, despite the truth of it or because of it.”

— Erin Morgenstern

457. “Drank rosemary for remembrance. Looked for a cat. Danced with the king of the wild things. Excellent-smelling man told me a story in the dark. Cat found me.”

— Erin Morgenstern

458. “If all endings are beginnings, are all beginnings also endings?”

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459. “I am not particularly fond of believing in impossible things.”

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460. “Los nombres no son de tanta importancia como las personas han de suponer, una etiqueta asignada para identificarte.”

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461. “She wears her fear lightly, like a veil, aware that there are dangers but letting the crackling awareness hover around her. It does not sink in, it buzzes in excitement like a swarm of invisible bees.”

— Erin Morgenstern

462. “Am I familiar?’ Dorian says and Zachary wants to say Yes, yes you are the most familiar and I don’t understand how but that is too much truth right now so instead he says, ‘If you were a man lost in time where would you be?”

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463. “You think you don’t have a house to go home to but you do now, understand?”

— Erin Morgenstern

464. “Once there was a woman who sculpted stories.”

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465. “Hours or days or weeks. Some will leave and return, keeping the place as an escape, a retreat, a sanctuary. Living lives both above and below.”

— Erin Morgenstern

466. “It’s important to you, isn’t it?” Eleanor asks. “Yes, it is.” “Important things hurt sometimes.”

— Erin Morgenstern

467. “The girl spends one night, and then another. By the end of the second night she can see the ghosts again. By the third she has no desire to leave, for who would leave their home once they had found it? She is there, still.”

— Erin Morgenstern

468. “Do not be afraid; our fate can not be taken from us; it is a gift.”

— Erin Morgenstern

469. “The mug is filled with warm coconut milk with turmeric and black pepper and honey.”

— Erin Morgenstern

470. “But most of the memories are stories.”

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471. “All stories do, no matter what form they take. Something was, and then something changed. Change is what a story is, after all.”

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472. “The night of the anniversary party,” she says. “The night you kissed me. I thought it that night. I didn’t want to play anymore, I only wanted to be with you. I thought I would ask you to run away with me and I meant it. The very moment I convinced myself that we could manage it, I was in so much pain I could barely stand. Friedrick didn’t know what to make of me, he sat me in a quiet corner and held my hand and did not pry when I couldn’t explain because that’s how kind he is.”

— Erin Morgenstern

473. “They say that every hundred years – some versions say every five hundred, or every thousand – the sun disappears from the daytime sky at the same time the moon vanishes from the night. They say their absence is coordinated so that they may meet in a secret location, unseen by the stars, to discuss the state of the world and compare what each has seen over the past hundred or five hundred or thousand years.”

— Erin Morgenstern

474. “They go deeper than any resident, any acolyte. They light their own candles. They see what no one else sees. They see what has come before. They may not ask questions. They may simply observe.”

— Erin Morgenstern

475. “A sword, perhaps three or four inches in length, is tattooed on each guardian. Each sword is unique. It has been designed for this guardian and no other.”

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476. “In this significant moment, if the boy turns the painted knob and opens the impossible door, everything will change. But he does not. Instead, he puts his hands in his pockets. Part of him decides he is being childish and that he is too old to expect real life to be like books. Another part of him decides that if he does not try he cannot be disappointed and he can go on believing that the door could open even if it is just pretend.”

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477. “And so time goes as it should and events that were once fated to happen are left instead to chance, and Chance never falls in love with anything for long. But the world is strange and endings are not truly endings no matter how the stars might wish it so. Occasionally Fate can pull itself together again. And Time is always waiting.”

— Erin Morgenstern

478. “He drinks his wine while he weighs his options and his future and his past and his story. How far he’s come. The unknowable distance left to go.”

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479. “Los mejores placeres son siempre los inesperados.”

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480. “You can talk, can’t you?” he asks. “No,” says the cat. It bows its head and turns, walking off into the shadows, leaving Zachary staring dumbly after it.”

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481. “Passionate love stories that were manipulated into the vacancies between raindrops and vanished with the end of the storm.”

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482. “Disoriented and woozy, his mind a second behind his body, like pulling himself through crystal-clear mud. As though he’s still drunk but doing it wrong.”

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483. “This is the rabbit hole. Do you want to know the secret to surviving once you’ve gone down the rabbit hole?” Zachary nods and Mirabel leans forward. Her eyes are ringed with gold. “Be a rabbit,” she whispers.”

— Erin Morgenstern

484. “Maybe once you go to wonderland you’re supposed to stay there because nothing will ever be the same in the real world, in the other world, afterward. Afterworld.”

— Erin Morgenstern

485. “It will take a great deal more than that charming smile of yours to seduce me.”

— Erin Morgenstern

486. “They take an unspoken vow to no longer tell their own stories in reverence to the ones that came before and to the ones that shall follow.”

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487. “Bailey feels oddly at ease. As though he is closer to the ground, but taller at the same time. His concerns about his future no longer weigh so heavily on him as he exits the tent, turning right down the curving path that winds between the striped tents.”

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488. “She sat next to me and told me that we were the people that the narrative would have followed out from the party if we were in a movie or a novel or something. We were where the story was, the story you could follow like a string, not all the overlapping party stories in the house, tangled up with too many dramas soaked in cheap alcohol and stuffed into not enough rooms.”

— Erin Morgenstern

489. “Did you have a nightmare?’ Eleanor asks from across the room. She is adjusting her maps. ‘I used to have nightmares and I would write them down and fold them up into stars and throw them away to be rid of them. Sometimes it worked.”

— Erin Morgenstern

490. “I’m not trying to get back to the place,” Dorian says. “I’m trying to get back to a person.” Admitting it aloud feels like an affirmation. “People change, too, you know.” “I do know,” Dorian says, nodding. He doesn’t want to think about it. He had always wanted to be in the place but he didn’t understand until he was finally there that the place was merely a way to get to the person and now he has lost them both.”

— Erin Morgenstern

491. “He tries to decide if he’s changed since this all started because isn’t that the point and he feels different than he did but he can’t weigh feeling different versus having changed from inside himself with no heartbeat, standing on a shore with no shoes.”

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492. “We are words on paper,” he says softly, turning the book over in his hands. “We are coming to the end.”

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493. “Maybe his story began and ended that day in that alleyway. Maybe his story is about missed opportunities that cannot be recaptured.”

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494. “In the heavens the stars sparkled with relief but the moon was full of sorrow.”

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495. “Alone in their town house, Tara wanders absently. She abandons half-read novels on chairs and tables. The invitations from Mme. Padva to join her for tea or accompany her to the ballet are politely declined. She turns all of the mirrors in the house to face the walls. Those she cannot manage to turn she covers with sheets so they sit like ghosts in empty rooms. She has trouble sleeping.”

— Erin Morgenstern

496. “La gente non fa caso a niente, a meno che tu non gliene dia una ragione. Anche se i capelli contribuiscono a renderci apparentemente estranei a un circo in bianco e nero.”

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497. “His dark hair is badly cut, as though the barber was distracted during the process, but some attempt has been made to flatten it.”

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498. “He wondered... how many people breathed this air that smells of smoke and honey and if any of them felt the way he feels now; unsure and afraid and unable to know which decision is the right one, if there is a right decision at all.”

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499. “Some are used with hinge-loosening frequency and others remain undiscovered and unopened and more have simply been forgotten, but all of them lead to the same location.”

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500. “So far so good, but I never like to commit to an opinion until the end of the book because you never know what might happen.”

— Erin Morgenstern