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Comic-Con was crazy, good crazy... Five minutes after I'm done, the cast of 'Twilight' is where I was sitting.
Erin Morgenstern
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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
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It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.
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Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.
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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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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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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.
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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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But you built me dreams instead.
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Each of them always gravitating toward the other. Yet still they do not touch.
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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'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.
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Esse quam videri, Celia says. To be, rather than to seem.
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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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I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.
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Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.
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You told me love was fickle and fleeting.
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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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