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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

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

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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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Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness. Sorrows you thought long forgotten mingle with still-fresh wounds.
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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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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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I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.
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I saw in details while she saw in scope. Not seeing the scope is why I am here and she is not. I took each element spearately and never looked to see that they never did fit together properly
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...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.
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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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We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.
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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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The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.
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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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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 do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.
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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.
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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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They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.
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The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.
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Esse quam videri, Celia says. To be, rather than to seem.
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The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.
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