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I dont think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

Erin Morgenstern

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Dream
Anything
Nightmares
Way
Dreamer
Think
Nightmare
Thinking
Turning
Dreams
Ways
Wrong

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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.
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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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It's not a real name, she says. Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.
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I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.
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I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing.
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You told me love was fickle and fleeting.
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Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.
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I made a wish on this tree years ago, Marco says. What did you wish for? Bailey asks. Marco leans forward and whispers in Bailey's ear. I wished for her.
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I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
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The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.
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The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.
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We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.
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You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des Rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus. You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.
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