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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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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
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Keep
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The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.
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I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.
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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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I cannot let a place that is so important to so many people fade away. Something that is wonder and comfort and mystery all together that they have nowhere else. If you had that, wouldn't you want to keep it?
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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 like that once upon a time quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.
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Misdirection is one of my strengths.
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But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.
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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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The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.
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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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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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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 have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.
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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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I wished for her,” he says.
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I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
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I have absurdly vivid dreams.
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