Erin Morgenstern Quotes About Fairy Tales

Quotes about: Fairy Tales

• Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Stars, Fairy Tale, Tales

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.147, Random House

• He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. And he is not in the position to do any rescuing of his own.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Girl, Opportunity, Knights

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.92, Random House

• They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic. Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars… When they depart, they shake hands and embrace like old friends, even if they have only just met, and as they go their separate ways they feel less alone than they had before.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Stars, Hands, People

• I like that "once upon a time" quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Real, Once Upon A Time, Quality

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

• And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Different, Wake Up, Fairy Tale

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