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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
Life
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Stones
Places
Takes
Future
Remember
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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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I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.
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It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.
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They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.
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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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Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?
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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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Celia. he says without looking up at her, why do we wind our watch? Because everything requires energy, she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.
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I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
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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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Celia laughs and a curl of her hair falls across her cheek. Marco tentatively moves to brush it off her face, but before his fingers reach her, she pushes herself off the ledge, her silver gown a billowing cloud as she falls onto the pile of jewel-toned cushions.
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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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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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I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.
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He spends the majority of the evening in the company of Celia Bowen, whose elaborate gown changes color, shifting through a rainbow of hues to compliment whoever she is closest to.
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It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.
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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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Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.
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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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Timing is a sensitive thing.
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