Top 500 Erin Morgenstern Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “And before he can tell her to tell Widget goodbye for him if need be, she leans forward and kisses him, not on the cheek, as she has a handful of times before, but on the lips, and Bailey knows in that moment that he will follow her anywhere.”

— Erin Morgenstern

102. “It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.”

— Erin Morgenstern

103. “Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.”

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104. “Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.”

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105. “Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?”

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106. “I have absurdly vivid dreams.”

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107. “Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.”

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108. “The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping through your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you towards the future.”

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109. “Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.”

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110. “I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.”

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111. “Though I have seen a great deal of the sights, traveled a number of the available paths, there are always corners that remain unexplored, doors that remain unopened.”

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112. “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.”

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113. “The sensation reminds him of the first snow of winter, for those first few hours when everything is blanketed in white, soft and quiet.”

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114. “I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.”

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115. “The towering tents are striped in white and black, no golds and crimsons to be seen. No colour at all, save for the neighbouring trees and grass of the surrounding fields. Black-and-white stripes on grey sky; countless tents of varying shapes and sizes, with an elaborate wrought-iron fence encasing them in a colourless world. Even what little ground is visible from outside is black or white, painted or powdered, or treated with some other circus trick.”

— Erin Morgenstern

116. “And now, I’m a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I’ll wake up from.”

— Erin Morgenstern

117. “It’s helpful for me to get ideas – the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It’s nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.”

— Erin Morgenstern

118. “The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.”

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119. “He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure, he is not sure what does.”

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120. “That man has no shadow.”

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121. “I binge write. I think it’s because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.”

— Erin Morgenstern

122. “I’m kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.”

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123. “I like that ‘once upon a time’ quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There’s a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they’re real world based.”

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124. “Each of them always gravitating toward the other. Yet still they do not touch.”

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125. “Sometimes life gets weird. You can try to ignore it or you can see where weird takes you.”

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126. “I keep waiting for things to get back down to whelming, but they stay at overwhelming.”

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127. “I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that’s when I found my rhythm in writing.”

— Erin Morgenstern

128. “Not all stories speak to all listeners, but all listeners can find a story that does, somewhere, sometime. In one form or another.”

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129. “You keep leaving me. You leave me longing for you again and again when I would give anything for you to stay, and it is killing me.”

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130. “Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they’re at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they’re lurking in my shower. Sometimes they’re waiting patiently in glass cases in museums.”

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131. “There is a stag in the snow. Blink and he will vanish. Was he a stag at all or was he something else? Was he a sentiment hanging unspoken or a path not taken or a closed door left unopened?”

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132. “Time is a peculiar thing. You’ll learn that eventually.”

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133. “We’re here to wander through other people’s stories, searching for our own.”

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134. “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. Your sister may be able to see the future, but you yourself can shape it, boy. Do not forget that.” He takes another sip of his wine. “There are many kinds of magic, after all.”

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135. “I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents. It reminds me of what it was to be with her. It is wonderful and it is terrible. I am not yet prepared to give it up, but you are letting it fade.”

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136. “Spiritual but not religious,” Zachary clarifies. He doesn’t say what he is thinking, which is that his church is held-breath story listening and late-night-concert ear-ringing rapture and perfect-boss fight-button pressing. That his religion is buried in the silence of freshly fallen snow, in a carefully crafted cocktail, in between the pages of a book somewhere after the beginning but before the ending.”

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137. “Occasionally, Fate pulls itself together again and Time is always waiting.”

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138. “Endings are what give stories meaning. I don’t know if I believe that. I think the whole story has meaning but I also think to have a whole story-shaped story it needs some sort of resolution. Not even a resolution, some appropriate place to leave it. A goodbye. I think the best stories feel like they’re still going, somewhere, out in story space.”

— Erin Morgenstern

139. “The weather. It’s like a poem. Where each word is more than one thing at once and everything’s a metaphor. The meaning condensed into rhythm and sound and the spaces between sentences. It’s all intense and sharp, like the cold and the wind.” “You could just say it’s cold out.” “I could.”

— Erin Morgenstern

140. “Figs that drip with honey, sugar blown into curls and flowers.”

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141. “But the world is strange and endings are not truly endings no matter how the stars might wish it so.”

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142. “Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the gray suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly sad. “There are no more battles between good and evil, no monsters to slay, no maidens in need of rescue. Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience; at least the ones worth something in any case.”

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143. “Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon, or a wolf and a scarlet-clad little girl. And is not the dragon the hero of his own story?”

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144. “The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.”

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145. “Dorian smiles and Zachary wonders how you can miss someone’s smile when you’ve only seen it once before.”

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146. “Even tiny empires fall.”

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147. “I knew that, and still it surprised me. How long I was willing to wait for something that was only a possibility.”

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148. “But the story wanted an ending. Endings are what give stories meaning.”

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149. “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 and he is so focused on story and meaning and structure that he wants his world to have all of it neatly laid out and it never, ever does and he fears it never will. He tells her things he has never told anyone.”

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150. “It doesn’t look like anything special, like it contains an entire world, though the same could be said of any book.”

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