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Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.
Erin Morgenstern
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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
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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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The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.
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And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister's story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead.
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The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it’s still there, the events and things that pushed you to where you are now.
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Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them.
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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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...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.
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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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You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.
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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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I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.
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You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.
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But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.
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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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The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.
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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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