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It's not a real name, she says. Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.

Erin Morgenstern

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
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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'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor. There's a reason why they're sometimes called fairy lights. When the night is right, there aren't any strings at all.
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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.
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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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How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?” Celia asks after a while. “Very carefully,” Marco answers.
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Marco moves to close the distance between them, kissing away her tears before catching her lip with his own. As he kisses her, the bonfire glows brighter. The acrobats catch the light perfectly as they spin. The entire circus sparkles, dazzling every patron.
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Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.
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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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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.
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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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Esse quam videri, Celia says. To be, rather than to seem.
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Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.
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And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.
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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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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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I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.
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The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.
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You told me love was fickle and fleeting.
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And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister's story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead.
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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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