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I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Clearly
Sitting
Right
Feel
Feels
Something
Like
Idly
Trapped

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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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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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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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I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.
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Esse quam videri, Celia says. To be, rather than to seem.
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All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.
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Misdirection is one of my strengths.
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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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I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.
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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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