Quote

Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them.

Erin Morgenstern

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Important
Change
Diminishes
Even
Power
Diminish
Persons
Sharing
Best
Shared
Person
Secrets
Wells
Kept
Well
Ones
Real
Secret

More quotes by Erin Morgenstern

Image
„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
Image
All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.
Erin Morgenstern
Image
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
Image
It’s said that All Hallows’ Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.
Erin Morgenstern
Image
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
Image
I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.
Erin Morgenstern
Image
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
Image
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.
Erin Morgenstern
Image
I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.
Erin Morgenstern
Image
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?
Erin Morgenstern
Image
I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.
Erin Morgenstern
Image
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.
Erin Morgenstern
Image
Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.
Erin Morgenstern
Image
You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.
Erin Morgenstern
Image
When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different - and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.
Erin Morgenstern
Image
...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.
Erin Morgenstern
Image
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
Image
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.
Erin Morgenstern
Image
Marco moves to close the distance between them, kissing away her tears before catching her lip with his own. As he kisses her, the bonfire glows brighter. The acrobats catch the light perfectly as they spin. The entire circus sparkles, dazzling every patron.
Erin Morgenstern
Image
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.
Erin Morgenstern