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I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.

Erin Morgenstern

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
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Hamlet
Thinking
Haunted
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Ghost
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Father
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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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Marco knows he does not have the time to push her away, so he pulls her close, burying his face in her hair, his bowler hat torn from his head by the wind....Trust me, Celia whispers in his ear, and he stops fighting it, forgetting everything but her.
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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’ve missed you,” he whispers softly. The air between them is electric as he leans in, gently brushing his lips against her neck. In the next room, the guests complain about the sudden increase in temperature. Fans are drawn from colorful bags, fluttering like tropical birds.
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Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.
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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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Esse quam videri, Celia says. To be, rather than to seem.
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Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.
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I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.
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„I forgive you for stealing my shawl.“ She smiles as he laughs. And then she vanishes. A simple trick of distracting his attention long enough to slip out through the hall, despite the lingering temptation to stay.
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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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You told me love was fickle and fleeting.
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I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.
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I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.
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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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...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.
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The sensation reminds him of the first snow of winter, for those first few hours when everything is blanketed in white, soft and quiet.
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Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.
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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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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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