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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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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
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I have read for countless people on innumerable subjects and the most difficult thing to understand within the cards is always the timing. I knew that, and still it surprised me. How long I was willing to wait for something that was only a possibility. I always thought it was just a matter of time but I was wrong.
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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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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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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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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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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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But you built me dreams instead.
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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.
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And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.
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Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them.
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It's a wonderful sort of feeling when people want to spend more time in a world you created.
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I have absurdly vivid dreams.
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The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.
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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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The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.
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Celia laughs and a curl of her hair falls across her cheek. Marco tentatively moves to brush it off her face, but before his fingers reach her, she pushes herself off the ledge, her silver gown a billowing cloud as she falls onto the pile of jewel-toned cushions.
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We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.
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I wished for her,” he says.
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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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Each of them always gravitating toward the other. Yet still they do not touch.
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