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I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
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They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.
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I am already married, she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar.
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I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister.
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Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness. Sorrows you thought long forgotten mingle with still-fresh wounds.
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This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.
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The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.
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And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister's story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead.
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...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.
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I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.
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All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.
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The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.
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Misdirection is one of my strengths.
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You look like a ghost, Bailey says. He can think of no better way to describe it. You appear the same way to me, so which of us is real?
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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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Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.
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You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.
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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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Marco knows he does not have the time to push her away, so he pulls her close, burying his face in her hair, his bowler hat torn from his head by the wind....Trust me, Celia whispers in his ear, and he stops fighting it, forgetting everything but her.
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...the thrill of being surrounded by something wondrous and fantastical, only magnified and focused directly at her. The feel of his skin against hers reverberates across her entire body, though his fingers remain entwined in hers.
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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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