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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.
Erin Morgenstern
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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
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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.
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He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure, he is not sure what does.
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Celia. he says without looking up at her, why do we wind our watch? Because everything requires energy, she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.
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...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.
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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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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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Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.
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The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it’s still there, the events and things that pushed you to where you are now.
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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'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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I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.
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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'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.
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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 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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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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She turns her head, Bailey catches her eye, and she smiles at him. Not in the way that one smiles at a random member of the audience when one is in the middle of performing circus tricks with unusually talented kittens but in the way that one smiles when one recognizes someone they have not seen in some time.
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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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The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.
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