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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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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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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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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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Celia laughs and a curl of her hair falls across her cheek. Marco tentatively moves to brush it off her face, but before his fingers reach her, she pushes herself off the ledge, her silver gown a billowing cloud as she falls onto the pile of jewel-toned cushions.
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I wished for her,” he says.
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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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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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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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It's a wonderful sort of feeling when people want to spend more time in a world you created.
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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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How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?” Celia asks after a while. “Very carefully,” Marco answers.
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The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.
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Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they’re at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they’re lurking in my shower. Sometimes they’re waiting patiently in glass cases in museums.
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