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You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.

Erin Morgenstern

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Believe
Endured
Sorry
Lived
Pain
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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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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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I have absurdly vivid dreams.
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We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.
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The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.
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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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So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.
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Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.
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Misdirection is one of my strengths.
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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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