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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
Remember
Sometimes
Never
Unexpected
Life
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Stones
Places
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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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Esse quam videri, Celia says. To be, rather than to seem.
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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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It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.
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Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.
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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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And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.
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Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness. Sorrows you thought long forgotten mingle with still-fresh wounds.
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I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.
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Misdirection is one of my strengths.
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I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.
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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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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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I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.
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I saw in details while she saw in scope. Not seeing the scope is why I am here and she is not. I took each element spearately and never looked to see that they never did fit together properly
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I wished for her,” he says.
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I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.
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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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All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.
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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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