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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
Erin Morgenstern
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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
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Taking his time, as though he has all of it in the world, in the universe, from the days when tales meant more than they do now, but perhaps less than they will someday, he draws a breath that releases the tangled knot of words in his heart, and they fall from his lips effortlessly. The circus arrives without warning.
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She turns her head, Bailey catches her eye, and she smiles at him. Not in the way that one smiles at a random member of the audience when one is in the middle of performing circus tricks with unusually talented kittens but in the way that one smiles when one recognizes someone they have not seen in some time.
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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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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 that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.
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It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.
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Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.
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People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to
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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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I have absurdly vivid dreams.
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The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping through your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you towards the future.
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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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I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.
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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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Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.
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I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.
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I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing.
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Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.
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It's not a real name, she says. Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.
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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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