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Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Black
Ship
Book
Ships
Made
Thousands
Pages
Overlapping
Sea
Sails
Books
Ink
Dark
Floats
Upon
Sail

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You look like a ghost, Bailey says. He can think of no better way to describe it. You appear the same way to me, so which of us is real?
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It's a wonderful sort of feeling when people want to spend more time in a world you created.
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You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des Rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus. You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.
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We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.
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The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.
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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 think looking forward will be better than looking back.
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I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.
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The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.
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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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We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.
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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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And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.
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He spends the majority of the evening in the company of Celia Bowen, whose elaborate gown changes color, shifting through a rainbow of hues to compliment whoever she is closest to.
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But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.
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...the thrill of being surrounded by something wondrous and fantastical, only magnified and focused directly at her. The feel of his skin against hers reverberates across her entire body, though his fingers remain entwined in hers.
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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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I am already married, she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar.
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I dont think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.
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