Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
„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.
Erin Morgenstern
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Forgiving
Hall
Despite
Slips
Shawl
Laughing
Halls
Distracting
Stay
Trick
Vanishes
Attention
Stealing
Lingering
Simple
Forgive
Laughs
Enough
Temptation
Slip
Long
Tricks
Smiles
More quotes by Erin Morgenstern
...the thrill of being surrounded by something wondrous and fantastical, only magnified and focused directly at her. The feel of his skin against hers reverberates across her entire body, though his fingers remain entwined in hers.
Erin Morgenstern
Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.
Erin Morgenstern
I'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.
Erin Morgenstern
This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.
Erin Morgenstern
Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.
Erin Morgenstern
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.
Erin Morgenstern
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.
Erin Morgenstern
We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.
Erin Morgenstern
Are we going to discuss whatever it is you are here to discuss instead of dancing around it?” he asks. “I was never a particularly good dancer.
Erin Morgenstern
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.
Erin Morgenstern
I think looking forward will be better than looking back.
Erin Morgenstern
Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.
Erin Morgenstern
The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.
Erin Morgenstern
There is so much that glows in the circus, from flames to lanterns to stars. I have heard the expression “trick of the light” applied to sights within Le Cirque des Reves so frequently that I sometimes suspect the entirety of the circus is itself a complex illusion of illumination” .
Erin Morgenstern
And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.
Erin Morgenstern
I cannot let a place that is so important to so many people fade away. Something that is wonder and comfort and mystery all together that they have nowhere else. If you had that, wouldn't you want to keep it?
Erin Morgenstern
He spends the majority of the evening in the company of Celia Bowen, whose elaborate gown changes color, shifting through a rainbow of hues to compliment whoever she is closest to.
Erin Morgenstern
You told me love was fickle and fleeting.
Erin Morgenstern
The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.
Erin Morgenstern
How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?” Celia asks after a while. “Very carefully,” Marco answers.
Erin Morgenstern