Night Circus Quotes - Page 2

• A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.

  Oscar Wilde

  Good Night, Dream, Punishment

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.296, OUP Oxford

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• You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des Rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus. You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dream, Thinking, Dawn

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Aug 02, 2014

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• I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Tired, Trying, Together

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.300, Random House

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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.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Eye, Hands, Wind

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.22, Random House

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• Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

  Erin Morgenstern

  Princess, Hero, Dragons

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.404, Random House

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• We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Life, Dream, Strange

  "The Night Circus". Book by Erin Morgenstern, September 13, 2011.

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• It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Destroying Me, Destroying, Asks

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.232, Random House

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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.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Father, Thinking, Ghost

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.326, Random House

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• I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Wine, Character, Night

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• But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dream, Way, Nightmare

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