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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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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Two
Doe
Different
Make
Never
Love
Interchangeable
People
Ethan
Decide

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People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to
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You told me love was fickle and fleeting.
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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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Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.
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And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.
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Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.
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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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Is it not that bad to be trapped somewhere, then? Depending on where you're trapped? I suppose it depends on how much you like the place you're trapped in, Widget says. And how much you like whoever you're stuck there with, Poppet adds, kicking his black boot with her white one.
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Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them.
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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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Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.
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I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.
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Esse quam videri, Celia says. To be, rather than to seem.
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I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.
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