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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
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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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This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it down in fancy books that get all dusty with age has lessened it, removed its power bit by bit.
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Esse quam videri, Celia says. To be, rather than to seem.
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The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.
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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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I have absurdly vivid dreams.
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How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?” Celia asks after a while. “Very carefully,” Marco answers.
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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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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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It’s said that All Hallows’ Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.
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I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.
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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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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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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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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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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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