Erin Morgenstern Quotes - Page 7

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• Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.

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  Stones, Fortune, Fortune Teller

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.376, Random House

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• The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.

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  Believe, Reading, People

  "The Night Circus's dazzling, high-wire debut". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2011.

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• I thought a circus environment would be an interesting venue to explore, where you didn't just have one tent with three rings and a show going on but where you could explore different things in different tents.

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  Interesting, Different, Would Be

  "'The Night Circus' looks to enchant fans of 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter'". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. September 19, 2011.

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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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  Air, Bird, Fans

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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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  Secret, Wells, Sharing Secrets

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.177, Random House

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• People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.

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  Writing, People, Evil

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.37, Random House

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• You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.

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  Gears, Clock

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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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  Sitting, Feels, Trapped

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.156, Random House

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• 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.

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  Believe, Too Much, Umbrella

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.165, Random House

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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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  Kissing, People, Want

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.214, Random House

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• I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.' 'But you built me dreams instead.

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  Dream, Sea, Ink

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Aug 10, 2014

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• I don’t have the time to devote to circles or covens. I have to fit things in when and where I can, in stolen moments and cups of coffee. Stirring clockwise to conjure. Widdershins to banish. There’s never enough time, and rarely enough caffeine, but I make do with what I have. Besides, cauldrons and pointy hats are overrated. Sometimes I see other customers practicing. Pouring their cream and sugar with studied intent. Stirring with purpose. I add an extra spoonful of sugar to my own coffee for them, to make all of our enchantments sweeter.

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  Coffee, Circles, Enough Time

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• Sting told me if I love somebody I should set them free. I doubt Sting ever loved anyone with wings. If he did he might rethink such a stupid sentiment. I suppose the point is to wait for your love to come back to you voluntarily. I wonder if there’s a difference between setting something free and letting it go? I probably did it wrong. I should stop taking advice from my radio. I worry that you’re lost. I keep a heart-shaped cage unlocked for you, out on the street where it can easily be seen. So if one day you return at least you’ll have a place to stay.

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  Stupid, Heart, Wings

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• You send me all these roses. Every time I think the last bouquet has arrived, finally, another turns up. I’m running out of vases. I didn’t know roses came in so many colors. You say they’re the perfect symbols of love because they have thorns and love is pain. I say life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. And you don’t get it. You say you love me, but you don’t speak my language. You don’t even realize I’m an orchid girl.

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  Girl, Running, Pain

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• I worry hope will crush me, the way love has so many times before. Are they so different, hope and love? O & E in the same place, half of the other in each word. Both swimming in unknowns. I’ve been through the big changes. These ones should seem easier in comparison, I should be more prepared, but they don’t and I’m not. Sometimes I feel like a broken-wing butterfly, clinging to a window screen. Afraid to let go. Afraid to stay. Wondering how much wing is enough to fly.

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  Crush, Letting Go, Butterfly

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• Marco moves to close the distance between them, kissing away her tears before catching her lip with his own. As he kisses her, the bonfire glows brighter. The acrobats catch the light perfectly as they spin. The entire circus sparkles, dazzling every patron.

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  Distance, Moving, Kissing

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• Celia, wait,” Marco says, standing but not moving closer to her. “You are breaking my heart. You told me once that I reminded you of your father. That you never wanted to suffer the way your mother did for him, but you are doing exactly that to me. You keep leaving me. You leave me longing for you again and again when I would give anything for you to stay, and it is killing me.” “It has to kill one of us,” Celia says quietly.

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  Mother, Father, Moving

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• The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

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  Dancer, Together, Littles

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Mar 25, 2013

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• I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.

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  Writing, Thinking, Challenges

  "Q&A with Erin Morgenstern: Author of The Night Circus". Interview With Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. August 20, 2012.

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• It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it,” Tsukiko says. “It is too familiar. Too comfortable.

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  Midst, Difficult, Situation

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• People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to

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  People, Giving, Attention

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• I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.

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  Princess, Way, Affair

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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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  Winter, White, Snow

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• The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a smattering of color amongst the sea of traditional black. Even the light rain cannot push it down into the realms of despair. It rests instead in a space of thoughtful melancholy.

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  Rain, Thoughtful, Light

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• To be rather than to seem.

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  Seems

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