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And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.

Erin Morgenstern

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
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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 have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.
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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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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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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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I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
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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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Timing is a sensitive thing.
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It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.
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We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.
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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 am already married, she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar.
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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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How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?” Celia asks after a while. “Very carefully,” Marco answers.
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I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.
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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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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.
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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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