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A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.
Erin Morgenstern
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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
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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.
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It’s said that All Hallows’ Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.
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I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.
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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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...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.
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And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.
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Timing is a sensitive thing.
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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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All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.
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The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.
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I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.
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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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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.
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I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.
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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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Taking his time, as though he has all of it in the world, in the universe, from the days when tales meant more than they do now, but perhaps less than they will someday, he draws a breath that releases the tangled knot of words in his heart, and they fall from his lips effortlessly. The circus arrives without warning.
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I wished for her,” he says.
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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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Each of them always gravitating toward the other. Yet still they do not touch.
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The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping through your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you towards the future.
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