Top 500 Erin Morgenstern Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “The space Dorian enters is the antithesis of what he has left, warm brightness erasing the dark cold. A large open hall filled with firelight and books, dark wood beams and windows covered in frost. It smells of spiced wine and baking bread. It is comforting in a way that defies words. It feels like a hug, if a hug were a place.”

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202. “He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself... During the hours spent watching the sheep as they wander aimlessly around their fields, he even wishes that someone would come and take him away, but wishes on sheep appear to work no better than wishes on stars.”

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203. “He tells her about moving from place to place to place and never feeling like he ever belonged in any of them, how wherever he was he would almost always rather be someplace else, preferably somewhere fictional. He tells her how he worries that none of it means anything.”

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204. “A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.”

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205. “You will pry this Adventure Time notebook from my cold dead hands, ya ding-dong.”

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206. “Names are not of nearly as much import as people like to suppose.”

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207. “To find a key, you have to understand the lock.”

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208. “It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner,” Tsukiko says. “You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.”

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209. “Reading a book four times in one day is perfectly normal behavior.”

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210. “It’s too normal. It’s disconcerting and making him dizzy and 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.”

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211. “How are you feeling? Zachary asks. “Like I’m losing my mind but in a slow, achingly beautiful sort of way.”

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212. “Because if the girl had not been beautiful and clever, she would have been easier to resist, and then there would be no story at all.”

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213. “The sound of his pencil scratching against paper is as methodical and precise as the ticking of the clock in the corner.”

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214. “The stag’s antlers are gold and covered with candles, twisting and burning like a crown of flame and wax.”

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215. “It is not the way of cats to interfere with fate.”

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216. “I love you but I will not sit here and wait for the story to change – I’m going to make it change.”

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217. “He tells her things he’s never told anyone. About the man who broke his heart in such a long, drawn out process that he couldn’t discern hurt from love and how whenever he tries to sort out how it feels now, long after the end of it the feeling is just a void.”

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218. “Reading a book four times in one day is perfectly normal behavior... Having a physical response to a lack of book is not unusual.”

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219. “You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose.”

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220. “He sits at the bar, feeling like a failure and yet overwhelmed by all that has happened as he attempts to catalogue the entire evening. 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.”

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221. “During the hours spent watching the sheep as they wander aimlessly around their fields, he even wishes that someone would come and take him away, but wishes on sheep appear to work no better than wishes on stars.”

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222. “There are tents, I am certain, that I have not discovered in my many visits to the circus. 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.” -Friedrick Thiessen, 1896.”

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223. “Is it not that bad to be trapped somewhere, then? Depending on where you’re trapped?” “I suppose it depends on how much you like the place you’re trapped in,” Widget says. “And how much you like whoever you’re stuck there with,” Poppet adds, kicking his black boot with her white one. Her brother laughs and the sound echoes through the tent, carried over the branches that are covered in candles. Each flame flickering and white.”

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224. “And so Time goes on 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.”

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225. “The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.”

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226. “Climbing is not for girls.” “Anything is for girls.”

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227. “Do you ever think about how many stories are out there?′ she asks, placing a finger on the glass. ‘How many dramas are unfolding around us right at this very moment? I wonder how long a book you would need to record them. You’d probably need an entire library to hold a single evening in Manhattan. An hour. A minute.”

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228. “You smile as though you have a secret.”

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229. “The wind howls after him as he leaves in fear of what is to come, but a mortal cannot understand the wishes of the wind no matter how loud it cries and so these final warnings go unheeded.”

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230. “There are so many pieces to a person. So many small stories and so few opportunities to read them.”

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231. “Every element of the circus blends together in a wonderful coalescence. Acts that have been training in separate countries on separate continents now perform in adjacent tents, each part melding seamlessly into a whole. Each costume, each gesture, each sign on each tent is more perfect than the last.”

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232. “I am so very tired of the romance of the dead girl. Aren’t you?”

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233. “Perhaps she herself is a page that was torn from a story and folded into a star and thrown in the shadows to be forgotten. Perhaps she should not steal books from hidden archives only to rip out their pages and then, give them away. But it is too late to change any of that now. And a beloved book is still beloved even if it was stolen to begin with. And imperfect. And then lost.”

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234. “I have literally always been the kid who believes in fairy tales but I didn’t know what to do because I wasn’t a kid, I was a twenty-something in a cocktail bar who never feels old enough to drink.”

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235. “These things happened. Sometimes it might sound weird but sometimes life is like that. Sometimes life gets weird. You can try to ignore it or you can see where weird takes you.”

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236. “I also think most of us are two steps away from jumping off something most of the time and you never know if the next day is going to push you in one direction or another.”

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237. “While earlier Marco had determined her to be little more than mildly intriguing and fairly pretty, this revelation is something more.”

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238. “It is a sanctuary for storytellers and storykeepers and storylovers. They eat and sleep and dream surrounded by chronicles and histories and myths.”

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239. “It is part of who I was, who I am, and who I will be.”

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240. “Everything is lit with glowing chandeliers and copious candles, so that the light is not bright but deep and warm and bubbling.”

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241. “Because everything requires energy,′ she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. ‘We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.”

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242. “We are going to find each other and we are going to figure this out together. You may be by yourself but you are not alone.”

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243. “Celia endeavors to be as helpful as she can, which consists mainly of fetching cups of tea and finding new and creative ways to assure people everything will be fine.”

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244. “Marionettes that control their own strings.”

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245. “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.”

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246. “This is what his mother would call a moment with meaning. A moment that changes the moments that follow.”

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247. “It began as a dollhouse. Over time, it has become more than that. A dolltown. A dollworld. A dolluniverse.”

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248. “This is the precise flavor that the circus should be. Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.”

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249. “Magic is secreand secrets are magic...”

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250. “This is not the first time they have stood together on these shores. It will not be the last. This is a story they will live over and over again, together and apart. The cage that contains them both is a large one that does not have a key. Not yet.”

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