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The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
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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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...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.
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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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When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different - and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.
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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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Do you remember all of your audiences? Marco asks. Not all of them, Celia says. But I remember the people who look at me the way you do. What way might that be? As though they cannot decide if they are afraid of me or they want to kiss me. I am not afraid of you, Marco says.
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Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?
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I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.
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I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.
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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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He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself.
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I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.
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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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I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.
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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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It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.
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You told me love was fickle and fleeting.
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Each of them always gravitating toward the other. Yet still they do not touch.
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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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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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