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I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Grounded
Particularly
Fantasy
Magic
Fans
Reality

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Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.
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I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.
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Timing is a sensitive thing.
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Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.
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He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself.
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You look like a ghost, Bailey says. He can think of no better way to describe it. You appear the same way to me, so which of us is real?
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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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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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Marco knows he does not have the time to push her away, so he pulls her close, burying his face in her hair, his bowler hat torn from his head by the wind....Trust me, Celia whispers in his ear, and he stops fighting it, forgetting everything but her.
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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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And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.
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You told me love was fickle and fleeting.
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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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Do you remember all of your audiences? Marco asks. Not all of them, Celia says. But I remember the people who look at me the way you do. What way might that be? As though they cannot decide if they are afraid of me or they want to kiss me. I am not afraid of you, Marco says.
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Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.
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I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.
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Each of them always gravitating toward the other. Yet still they do not touch.
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The Cloud Maze. “ An Excursion in Dimension A Climb Though the Firmament There Is No Beginning There Is No End Enter Where You Please Leave When You Wish Have No Fear of Falling
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I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.
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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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