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I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
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I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.
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Celia laughs and a curl of her hair falls across her cheek. Marco tentatively moves to brush it off her face, but before his fingers reach her, she pushes herself off the ledge, her silver gown a billowing cloud as she falls onto the pile of jewel-toned cushions.
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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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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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It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.
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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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