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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
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I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.
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I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.
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I wished for her,” he says.
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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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And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister's story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead.
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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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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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It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.
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