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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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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Without
Precede
Announcements
Arrives
Circus
Warning
Yesterday
Simply

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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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I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.
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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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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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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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I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
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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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Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.
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This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it down in fancy books that get all dusty with age has lessened it, removed its power bit by bit.
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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 been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.
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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 do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.
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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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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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He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself.
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Comic-Con was crazy, good crazy... Five minutes after I'm done, the cast of 'Twilight' is where I was sitting.
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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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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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