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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
Novelist
Writer
Familiarity
Truest
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Tales
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Time

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You told me love was fickle and fleeting.
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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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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 absurdly vivid dreams.
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I like that once upon a time quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.
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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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So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.
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The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.
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He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself.
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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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...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.
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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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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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Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.
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All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.
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The Cloud Maze. “ An Excursion in Dimension A Climb Though the Firmament There Is No Beginning There Is No End Enter Where You Please Leave When You Wish Have No Fear of Falling
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The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.
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I’ve missed you,” he whispers softly. The air between them is electric as he leans in, gently brushing his lips against her neck. In the next room, the guests complain about the sudden increase in temperature. Fans are drawn from colorful bags, fluttering like tropical birds.
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I think looking forward will be better than looking back.
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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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