Top 380 Erin Morgenstern Quotes (2023 Update)
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201. “Names are not of nearly as much import as people like to suppose.”

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

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

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

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

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207. “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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208. “Celia Bowen sits at a desk surrounded by piles of books. She ran out of space for her library some time ago, but instead of making the room larger she has opted to let the books become the room.”

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209. “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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210. “The future is never set in stone.”

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211. “Whatever happens will happen whether I worry about it or not.”

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

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213. “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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214. “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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215. “A show without an audience is nothing, after all.”

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216. “When she opens her eyes, they are standing on the quarterdeck of a ship in the middle of the ocean. Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.”

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

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

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

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221. “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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222. “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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223. “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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224. “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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225. “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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226. “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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227. “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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228. “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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229. “Magic is secreand secrets are magic...”

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230. “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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231. “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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232. “He waits though once he never waited, would never dream to wait or wait to dream.”

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233. “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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234. “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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235. “This is what his mother would call a moment with meaning. A moment that changes the moments that follow.”

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236. “Not a single person in that audience believes for a second that what I do up there is real,” he says, gesturing in the general direction of the stage. “That’s the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, and I am simply a bird in their midst. The audience cannot tell the difference beyond knowing that I am better at it.”

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237. “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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238. “If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.”

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239. “We are fish in a bowl, dear.”

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

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241. “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. – OSCAR WILDE, 1888.”

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

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243. “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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244. “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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245. “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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246. “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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247. “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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248. “I’m in love with her.”

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249. “There are many kinds of magic, after all.”

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250. “But he spends so much time in front of screens he has a near-compulsive need to let his eyeballs rest on paper.”

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