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I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
Erin Morgenstern
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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
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I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.
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Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.
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Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.
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There is so much that glows in the circus, from flames to lanterns to stars. I have heard the expression “trick of the light” applied to sights within Le Cirque des Reves so frequently that I sometimes suspect the entirety of the circus is itself a complex illusion of illumination” .
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You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des Rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus. You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.
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I dont think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.
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How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?” Celia asks after a while. “Very carefully,” Marco answers.
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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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I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.
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I have read for countless people on innumerable subjects and the most difficult thing to understand within the cards is always the timing. I knew that, and still it surprised me. How long I was willing to wait for something that was only a possibility. I always thought it was just a matter of time but I was wrong.
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Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?
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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 that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.
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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.
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Celia. he says without looking up at her, why do we wind our watch? 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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It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.
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I cannot let a place that is so important to so many people fade away. Something that is wonder and comfort and mystery all together that they have nowhere else. If you had that, wouldn't you want to keep it?
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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.
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Timing is a sensitive thing.
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Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.
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Follow your dreams Bailey. Be they Harvard or somehing else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself
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