Top 500 Erin Morgenstern Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “A few include disturbingly worded marriage proposals.”

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452. “Inside the tower room the small girl looked at the darkness and the darkness looked back.”

— Erin Morgenstern

453. “I’ve spent a great deal of my life doing what other people wanted for me and not what I wanted myself and I’m trying to change. Impulse decisions. No shoes. It’s refreshing in a terrifying sort of way.”

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454. “Zachary puts the candy on his tongue. He was right, peppermint. No, steel. Cold steel. The story unfolds in his head more than in his ears and there are words but there aren’t, pictures and sensations and tastes that change and progress from the initial mint and metal through blood and sugar and summer air. Then it’s gone.”

— Erin Morgenstern

455. “He tells himself that it is not a bad life. That there is nothing wrong with being a farmer. But still, the discontent remains. Even the ground beneath his feet feels unsatisfying to his boots.”

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456. “These doors will sing. Silent siren songs for those who seek what lies behind them.”

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457. “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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458. “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.”

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459. “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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460. “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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461. “Important things hurt sometimes.” Dorian smiles at the statement, despite the truth of it or because of it.”

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

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

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464. “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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465. “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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466. “Tal vez simplemente hacemos cosas similares de maneras diferentes.”

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

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

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

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472. “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.”

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

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

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475. “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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476. “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.”

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477. “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

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

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

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480. “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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481. “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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482. “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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483. “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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484. “And no story ever truly ends as long as it is told.”

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

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

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489. “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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490. “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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491. “I wished for her.”

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

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493. “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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494. “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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495. “All Hallows’ Eve is something special. The air itself crackles with mystery.”

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496. “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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497. “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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498. “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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499. “The Murray twins have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.”

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500. “Many more have had their lives taken by time before they could lose them in other fashions.”

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