Top 500 Erin Morgenstern Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “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.”

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452. “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

453. “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.”

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454. “A man this far into a story has his path to follow. There were many paths, once, in a time that is past, lost many miles and pages ago. Now there is only one path.”

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455. “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.”

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

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

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

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459. “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.”

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460. “You are words on paper,” Simon whispers, to himself or to Zachary or to the words above them clinging to their respective papers. “Be careful what stories you tell yourself.”

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461. “Tal vez simplemente hacemos cosas similares de maneras diferentes.”

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

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463. “Striving for uniqueness in a world of sameness.”

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

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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.”

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

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467. “Keepers must have spirit and keep it aloft. They are made keepers because they understand why we are here. Why it matters. Because they understand the stories.”

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468. “Everyone is a part of a story, what they want is to be part of something worth recording. It’s that fear of mortality, ‘I Was Here and I Mattered’ mind-set.”

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

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

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471. “Passing off manipulations as tricks and illusion. Charging admission.”

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472. “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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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.”

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474. “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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475. “His face is so much more than hair and eye color, she wonders why books do not describe the curves of noses or the length of eyelashes.”

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476. “And no story ever truly ends as long as it is told.”

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477. “They decided that one man out of his depth is no cause for alarm but even the bees are wrong from time to time.”

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478. “He isn’t certain about anything. He isn’t even certain that he minds not being certain about anything.”

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479. “He is having a heated argument with the voice inside his head about whether or not his mother will know if he dies because maternal intuition and also fortune teller when the door behind him opens.”

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480. “It is the idea of a party constructed by bees. It doesn’t feel real, but it does feel familiar.”

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481. “I hope wherever this all leads it’s worth it. Whenever that happens.”

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482. “It is a sanctuary for storytellers and storykeepers and storylovers. They eat and sleep and dream surrounded by chronicles and histories and myths. Some stay for hours or days before returning to the world above but others remain for weeks or years, living in shared or private chambers and spending their hours reading or studying or writing, discussing and creating with their fellow residents or working in solitude.”

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483. “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.”

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484. “He glances at the Tenniel illustration of a gryphon over the bar and wonders if anyone ever names bars after the Mock Turtle.”

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485. “I wished for her.”

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486. “Was he a sentiment hanging unspoken or a path not taken or a closed door left unopened?”

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487. “It is like remembering a different girl. A girl in a book she read and not a girl she was herself.”

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488. “It has never crossed Bailey’s mind that he could do such things himself, but having been told as much so simply and directly, it seems strangely achievable.”

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489. “All Hallows’ Eve is something special. The air itself crackles with mystery.”

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490. “There cannot be many former rabbits in such places.”

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491. “If you were to tell anyone what you know, or what you think you know, no one would believe you.” “Because it’s too weird?” “Because you’re a woman,” she said. “That makes you easier to write off as crazy. Hysterical. If you were a man it might be an issue.”

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492. “I suppose in a way, I made the Wishing Tree for you. I had thought you might like it.′ ‘I do like it.”

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493. “She focuses only on him, pulling everything that he is with her as she breaks herself apart. Holding on to the memory of every touch of his skin against hers, every moment she had spent with him. Carrying him with her.”

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494. “When you were five years old you turned a laundry tub into a pirate ship and launched an attack against the hydrangeas in my garden.”

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495. “Zachary Ezra Rawlins stares at the miniature versions of the same symbols he once contemplated in an alleyway behind his mother’s store and wonders how, exactly, he is supposed to continue a story he didn’t know he was in.”

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496. “The sensation of a cat brushing past his legs is so genuine that he looks down expecting to see it, but there is nothing on the floor.”

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497. “He couldn’t have made up this much detail on a person. Imaginary ladies can’t order coffee at Starbucks, probably.”

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498. “A portrait of a young man in a coat with a great many buttons but the buttons are all tiny clocks, from the collar to the cuffs, each reading different times.”

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499. “He has quietly longed for relationships with the type of intensity of those within its pages, regardless of the bacchanalian murderousness, but never found it and has now reached an age where he expects he never will.”

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500. “He thinks that if he is about to die, he should have began collecting his final thoughts earlier. He thinks about Zachary and regrets a lot of things he didn’t say or didn’t do. Books he didn’t read, stories he didn’t tell, decisions he didn’t make.”

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