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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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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
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The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.
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Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.
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I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.
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Are we going to discuss whatever it is you are here to discuss instead of dancing around it?” he asks. “I was never a particularly good dancer.
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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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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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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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I saw in details while she saw in scope. Not seeing the scope is why I am here and she is not. I took each element spearately and never looked to see that they never did fit together properly
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„I forgive you for stealing my shawl.“ She smiles as he laughs. And then she vanishes. A simple trick of distracting his attention long enough to slip out through the hall, despite the lingering temptation to stay.
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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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