Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Erin Morgenstern
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Color
Rainbow
Celia
Company
Compliment
Hues
Closest
Gown
Whoever
Hue
Evening
Gowns
Changes
Elaborate
Majority
Spends
Whose
Shifting
More quotes by Erin Morgenstern
I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing.
Erin Morgenstern
You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.
Erin Morgenstern
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.
Erin Morgenstern
Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.
Erin Morgenstern
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?
Erin Morgenstern
Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?
Erin Morgenstern
I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.
Erin Morgenstern
The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.
Erin Morgenstern
It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.
Erin Morgenstern
The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it’s still there, the events and things that pushed you to where you are now.
Erin Morgenstern
We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.
Erin Morgenstern
Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.
Erin Morgenstern
I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.
Erin Morgenstern
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.
Erin Morgenstern
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.
Erin Morgenstern
Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.
Erin Morgenstern
They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.
Erin Morgenstern
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.
Erin Morgenstern
People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to
Erin Morgenstern
I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister.
Erin Morgenstern
