Erin Morgenstern Quotes - Page 4

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• Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?

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  Dream, Leaving, Fancy

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.268, Random House

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• A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.

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  Thinking, Facts, Mystery

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• Taking his time, as though he has all of it in the world, in the universe, from the days when tales meant more than they do now, but perhaps less than they will someday, he draws a breath that releases the tangled knot of words in his heart, and they fall from his lips effortlessly. "The circus arrives without warning.

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  Fall, Heart, Tangled

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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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• I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.

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  Fun, Book, Thinking

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• When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different - and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.

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  Attitude, Laughing, Return

  "Magic Moments in Life" By Erin Morgenstern, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

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  Thinking, Stories, Speak

  "'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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You can say anything with a Post-It. I’m not entirely sure why that is. Maybe the friendliness of the squares makes it easier. A square is nicely compact and less intimidating than a full page. And they come in cheerful colors. Non-white paper is kind of inherently festive. Or maybe paper that sticks feels more important than paper that can blow away. (Though you can move them, if you need to put them somewhere else.) They might not be as lasting as words carved in stone, but Post-It thoughts will stay. For awhile, at least.

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  Moving, Blow, Squares

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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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• There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas. Those with something to say. They communicate through text inscribed on true public spaces, rather than blogs and forums. Choosing fewer words, even without being bound by 140 character limits. Using ink instead of pixels. Sending messages in living, breathing space. Pens scream louder into the void. Even if permanent ink is not aptly named.

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  Character, Artist, Space

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• Comic-Con was crazy, good crazy... Five minutes after I'm done, the cast of 'Twilight' is where I was sitting.

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  Crazy, Twilight, Sitting

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• The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

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  Tales, Familiarity, Truest

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• Have you tried the cinnamon things?" Poppet asks. "They're rather new. What are they called, Widge?" "Fantastically delicious cinnamon things?

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  Cinnamon, Asks, Delicious

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.199, Random House

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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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• Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.

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  Beautiful, Provocative, Unusual

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• So proper for a circus girl," Mme. Padva says with with a gleam in her eye. "We shall have to loosen those corset laces if we intend to keep you an intimate dinner company." "I expected the corset unlacing would take place after dinner," Celia says mildly, earning a chorus of laughter. "We shall keep Miss Bowen as intimate company regardless of the state of her corset," Chandresh says. "Make a note of that," he adds, waving a hand at Marco. "Miss Bowen's corset is duly noted, sir," Marco replies, and the laghter bubbles over the table again.

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  Girl, Laughter, Eye

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• 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.

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  Father, Names, Different

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.42, Random House

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• And before he can tell her to tell Widget goodbye for him if need be, she leans forward and kisses him, not on the cheek, as she has a handful of times before, but on the lips, and Bailey knows in that moment that he will follow her anywhere.

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  Goodbye, Kissing, Needs

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.275, Random House

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• Each of them always gravitating toward the other. Yet still they do not touch.

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  Stills

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