Erin Morgenstern Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Erin Morgenstern
Erin Morgenstern Famous Quotes & Sayings
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You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough.
I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.
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.
Prospero the Enchanter's immediate reaction upon meeting his daughter is a simple declaration of: Well, fuck.
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.
He is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been before
I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.
I believe you have my umbrella he says, almost out of breath but wearing a grin that has too much wolf in it to be properly sheepish.
Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.
It bothers him most at times like this, in the bottom of the brandy bottle and the quiet of the night.
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.
Behind him, the sheep, left to their own devices, decide to wander through the open gate into the field beyond.
He does hesitate, just for a moment, but he knows he will hate himself later if he doesn't at least try, no matter what might happen after.
The sound of his pencil scratching against paper is as methodical and precise as the ticking of the clock in the corner.
This is a typical Tsukiko response, one that does not truly answer the question. Isobel does not pry.
Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks [...] He wonders if the poem of the circus could possibly be bottled.
Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.
They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.
Often diners remark that they are too pretty, too impressive to eat, but they always find a way to manage.
Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.
Because I do not wish to know," he says. "I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.
Have you tried the cinnamon things?" Poppet asks. "They're rather new. What are they called, Widge?"
"Fantastically delicious cinnamon things?
"Fantastically delicious cinnamon things?
There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict.
The sensation reminds him of the first snow of winter, for those first few hours when everything is blanketed in white, soft and quiet.
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.
A soft breeze plays with her hair, bringing with it the mingling scent of dusty tomes and damp, rich ink.
Whatever you wish to pay for a glimpse of your future," the fortune-teller says. Bailey stops to consider this for a moment. It is strange, but fair.
You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.
Everything is lit with glowing chandeliers and copious candles, so that the light is not bright but deep and warm and bubbling.
Ah," remarked one guest when the topic arose. "You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell the time.
This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.
Nothing's impossible, Poppet responds. She smiles at him and jumps, her red hair trailing out behind her as she falls.
Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.
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.