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But you built me dreams instead.

Erin Morgenstern

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Built
Dreams
Instead
Dream

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The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.
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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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Each of them always gravitating toward the other. Yet still they do not touch.
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I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
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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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It's not a real name, she says. Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.
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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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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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It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.
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This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.
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And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.
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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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You told me love was fickle and fleeting.
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Follow your dreams Bailey. Be they Harvard or somehing else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself
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I made a wish on this tree years ago, Marco says. What did you wish for? Bailey asks. Marco leans forward and whispers in Bailey's ear. I wished for her.
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I wished for her,” he says.
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...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.
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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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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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