Top 500 Erin Morgenstern Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “He wanders alone but safe in his loneliness, confused but comforted by his confusion – a blanket of bewilderment to hide himself under.”

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452. “The place on your back.” Dorian puts a hand up to his shoulder, touching the topmost edge of the very elaborate, very real tattoo that covers his back. The branches of a tree, the canopy of a forest of cherry blossoms, star-sparkling with lanterns and lights though all of that is background for the centerpiece: a tree stump covered in books dripping with honey under a beehive with an owl sitting atop it, wearing a crown.”

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453. “This is their world, starless and sacred.”

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454. “He tells her how he worries that none of it means anything. That none of it is important. That who he is, or who he thinks he is, is just a collection of references to other people’s art.”

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455. “Why haven’t you asked me how I do my tricks?” Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not simply being polite about the matter. Friedrick considers the question thoroughly before he responds. “Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.”

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456. “But there are no new ideas. Only old ones, turned over and over again in her mind.”

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457. “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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458. “It won’t be the same when you get back,” Eleanor says. “Sometimes you can’t go back to the same old place, you have to go to the new ones.” “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.”

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459. “It is easier to be in love in a room with closed doors.”

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460. “They’re cards with stories on them,′ she explains as the girl looks curiously at the cards in her hand. ‘You shuffle the pictures and they tell you the story.”

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461. “Meoowrrr,” the cat remarks, in approval or dissent or indifference.”

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462. “He thinks he is almost there but he has so far to go.”

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463. “As long as there have been bees, there have been keepers.”

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464. “He has been given sweetness when he expected salt.”

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465. “But I remember the people who look at me the way you do.”

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466. “To have the whole world in one room. In one person. The universe condensed and intensified and burning, bright and alive and electric.”

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

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468. “There’s magic in that. It’s in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. 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 what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”

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469. “Move through this,” Simon advises him. “Let it move through you and then let it go.”

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470. “He was never at the beginning of this story. This story is much, much older than he is.”

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471. “I remember we talked about stories, and how they work and how they don’t and how life can seem so slow and weird when you expect it to be more like a story, with all the boring bits and everyday stuff edited out. The sort of stuff Z and I used to talk about.”

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

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473. “She carved her dreams and her desires and her fears and her nightmares and let them mingle.”

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474. “Isobel hesitates, glancing around at the clientele, a mostly bohemian crowd sipping absinthe and arguing about art.”

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475. “He complains that she should be doing something instead of just glowing there and then apologizes, for who is he to question the actions or inactions of the moon?”

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

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477. “The details are her favorite part: A shadow added here and a highlight there and suddenly a flat image gains dimension.”

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478. “Some, but not all, will figure out that perseverance is more important now than performance.”

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479. “I’m only doing it for you,” Marco says. “The rest of them will see me as they always have.”

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480. “Bailey fissa fuori dalla finestra, domandandosi di cosa sia fatto esattamente il crepuscolo.”

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481. “Dorian runs a hand through his still sticky graying hair, feeling too old for all of these marvels; and wondering when he went from young and faithful and obedient to confused and adrift and middle aged. But he knows exactly when it was because that moment haunts him still.”

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482. “Zachary feels something in his heart unclench that he didn’t realize had been clenched in the first place.”

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483. “We’d had a cool conversation about overlapping narratives, too, and how no single story is ever the whole story.”

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484. “Are you wearing pajamas?” the idea of Dorian asks.”

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485. “The air in his lungs is crisp and bright and difficult to breathe. Everything feels too much. Too wide and too open. Too cold and too strange.”

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486. “He wonders if he has stumbled upon a place where girls do not play games, where there are not unspoken rules to follow. No expectations. No chaperones. He wonders if his mother was like that. Wonders what makes a woman a witch.”

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487. “She said I’d have two sons. I had Zachery and for years afterwards I thought maybe she was just bad at math, or maybe he was twins for a moment before he was born and then not, but then I figured it out and I should have figured it out sooner. I know he’ll be back because I haven’t met my son-in-law yet.”

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488. “Tell me a story,” she says. The pirate obliges her.”

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489. “Elena laughs and one of the other librarians shushes her. Zachary gives her a wave as he leaves, relishing the librarian-on-librarian shushing.”

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490. “There are so many things she wants to say, things she feared she would never have the opportunity to tell him again. Only one seems truly important. “I love you,” she says.”

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491. “A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery are, in fact, the same person. It is surprising, but I do not mind a good surprise.”

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492. “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.”

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493. “All this comfort shouldn’t feel so uncomfortable.”

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494. “This is not even in the top one hundred ways he expected to die. Not even close.”

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495. “It won’t be the same when you get back,” Eleanor says. “Sometimes you can’t go back to the same old place, you have to go to the new ones.”

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496. “Yesterday it felt like it always does. Like almost, not quite, home. Today he feels like an imposter.”

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497. “You want to think that you did or that you were supposed to but you always had a choice.”

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498. “He thinks I feel like I have known you forever but he doesn’t say it and so they only hold each other’s gaze, not needing to say anything.”

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499. “He considered asking the woman what manner of key she sought so he might help her look but he knew how difficult it was to describe a key. To find a key you had to understand the lock.”

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

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