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And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.

Erin Morgenstern

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Happy
Really
Never
Endings
Otherwise

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I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.
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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 been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.
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Misdirection is one of my strengths.
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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” .
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But you built me dreams instead.
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I’ve missed you,” he whispers softly. The air between them is electric as he leans in, gently brushing his lips against her neck. In the next room, the guests complain about the sudden increase in temperature. Fans are drawn from colorful bags, fluttering like tropical birds.
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The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.
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The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.
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Esse quam videri, Celia says. To be, rather than to seem.
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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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The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.
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The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.
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It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.
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I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister.
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Timing is a sensitive thing.
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I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.
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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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I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
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All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.
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