Erin Morgenstern Quotes - Page 3

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• The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

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  Black And White, Unique, Night

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Jan 20, 2016

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• I cannot let a place that is so important to so many people fade away. Something that is wonder and comfort and mystery all together that they have nowhere else. If you had that, wouldn't you want to keep it?

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  People, Important, Together

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• The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and symbols he does not understand at first but that become intimately familiar beneath his ink-stained fingers, formed again and again in increasingly steady lines.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.27, Random House

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• Follow your dreams Bailey. Be they Harvard or somehing else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself

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  Dream, Father, Might

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• Timing is a sensitive thing.

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  Timing, Sensitive

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• I made a wish on this tree years ago," Marco says. "What did you wish for?" Bailey asks. Marco leans forward and whispers in Bailey's ear. "I wished for her.

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  Years, Tree, Wish

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• I find I think of myself not as a writer so much as someone who provides a gateway, a tangential route for readers to reach the circus. To visit the circus again, if only in their minds, when they are unable to attend it physically. I relay it through printed words on crumpled newsprint, words that they can read again and again, returning to the circus whenever they wish, regardless of time of day or physical location. Transporting them at will. When put that way, it sounds rather like magic, doesn't it? p.369

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  Thinking, Printed Word, Magic

  "The Night Circus". Book by Erin Morgenstern, October 6, 2016.

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• If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.

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  Thinking, Would Be, Gone

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• Trapped in silence, Marco traces apologies and adorations across Celia's body with his tongue. Mutely expressing all the things he cannot speak aloud. He finds other ways to tell her, his fingers leaving faint trails of ink in their wake. He savors every sound he elicits from her. The entire room trembles as they come together. And though there are a great many fragile objects contained within it, nothing breaks.

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  Apology, Silence, Leaving

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• The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.

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  Autumn, Thinking, Smell

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

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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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  Real, Secret, Important

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• I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.

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• I keep waiting for things to get back down to whelming, but they stay at overwhelming.

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  Waiting, Overwhelming, Get Back

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• 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.

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  Stars, Hands, People

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• The silence that falls between them is a comfortable one. He longs to reach over and touch her, but he resists, fearful of destroying the delicate camaraderie they are building. He steals glances instead, watching the way the light falls over her skin. Several times he catches her regarding him in a similar manner, and the moments when she holds his eyes with hers are sublime.

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  Fall, Eye, Light

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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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  Museums, Glasses, Ideas

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• All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.

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  Fall, Empires, Way

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• Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.

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  Dark, Appreciate, Wish

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

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  Tired, Trying, Together

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

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• Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.

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  Stories, Matter, Reason

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.352, Random House

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• I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.

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  Bisexual, Thinking, Dreamer

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• That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst.

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  Bird, Trying, Midst

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• I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.” “I’m in love with her.” “I am sorry to hear that,” he says. “It will make the challenge a great deal more difficult for you.” “We have been playing at this for more than a decade, when does it end?” “It ends when there is a victor.

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  Sorry, Distance, Challenges

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• You look like a ghost," Bailey says. He can think of no better way to describe it. "You appear the same way to me, so which of us is real?

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  Real, Thinking, Looks

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• I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.

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  Mean, Darkness, Paradise

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.385, Random House

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