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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.

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
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The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.
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You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.
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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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Misdirection is one of my strengths.
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Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.
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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’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 think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.
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Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.
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Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.
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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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So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.
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He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself.
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Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they’re at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they’re lurking in my shower. Sometimes they’re waiting patiently in glass cases in museums.
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All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.
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People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to
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The sensation reminds him of the first snow of winter, for those first few hours when everything is blanketed in white, soft and quiet.
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Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.
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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 don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
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