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Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

Erin Morgenstern

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
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Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.
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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 wished for her,” he says.
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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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Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.
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But you built me dreams instead.
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You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des Rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus. You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.
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The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.
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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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Marco knows he does not have the time to push her away, so he pulls her close, burying his face in her hair, his bowler hat torn from his head by the wind....Trust me, Celia whispers in his ear, and he stops fighting it, forgetting everything but her.
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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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I think looking forward will be better than looking back.
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The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.
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I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
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I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor. There's a reason why they're sometimes called fairy lights. When the night is right, there aren't any strings at all.
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I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.
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The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.
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The sensation reminds him of the first snow of winter, for those first few hours when everything is blanketed in white, soft and quiet.
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Why haven’t you asked me how I do my tricks?” Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not simply being polite about the matter. “Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better remain in the dark.
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