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Erin Morgenstern
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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
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I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.
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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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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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But you built me dreams instead.
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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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Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.
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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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Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.
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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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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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