Erin Morgenstern Quotes - Page 5

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• If I have not been completely honest with you, it is only because I know a great deal of things that you do not want to know. I am going to ask that you trust me when I tell you I am trying to make things better. It is an extremely delicate balance and there are a great many factors involved. The best we can do right now is take everything as it comes, and not to worry ourselves over things that have happened, or things that are to come.

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  Worry, Balance, Trying

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.334, Random House

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• That man has no shadow.

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  Men, Shadow

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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 don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

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  Coffee, Writing, Order

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

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• I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.

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  Stories

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• It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.

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  Nice, Writing, Careers

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• Is magic not enough to live for?

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  Magic, Enough

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

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• I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister.

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  Hands, Legs, Would Be

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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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• You need to understand your limitations so you can overcome them.

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  Overcoming, Needs, Limitation

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

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  Destroying Me, Destroying, Asks

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

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• „I forgive you for stealing my shawl.“ She smiles as he laughs. And then she vanishes. A simple trick of distracting his attention long enough to slip out through the hall, despite the lingering temptation to stay.

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  Simple, Long, Laughing

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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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• Celia laughs and a curl of her hair falls across her cheek. Marco tentatively moves to brush it off her face, but before his fingers reach her, she pushes herself off the ledge, her silver gown a billowing cloud as she falls onto the pile of jewel-toned cushions.

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  Moving, Fall, Clouds

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• 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.

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  Different, Wake Up, Fairy Tale

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• Could you do such things when you were a dancer?' Tara asks her, as Tsukiko pulls a leg up impossibly far over her head. 'I would have had a much busier social calendar if I could,' Mme. Padva replies with a shake of her head.

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  Dancer, Calendars, Legs

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• I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.

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  Identity, Opponents, Made

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• I have you here, all around me. I sit in the Ice Garden to get a hint of this, this way that you make me feel. I felt it even before I knew who you were, and every time I think it could not possibly get any stronger, it does.

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  Garden, Thinking, Ice

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• I tried to explain as much as I could," Poppet says. "I think I made an analogy about cake." "Well, that must have worked," Widget says. "Who doesn't like a good cake analogy?

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  Thinking, Cake, Analogies

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• She turns her head, Bailey catches her eye, and she smiles at him. Not in the way that one smiles at a random member of the audience when one is in the middle of performing circus tricks with unusually talented kittens but in the way that one smiles when one recognizes someone they have not seen in some time.

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  Eye, Circus, Way

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Nov 09, 2015

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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.

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  Father, Thinking, Ghost

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

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• He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. “I miss you,” Isobel says as he leaves, but the sentiment is crushed by the clatter of the beaded curtain falling closed behind him.

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  Moving, Fall, Air

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.134, Random House

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• And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.

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  Book, Stories, Pieces

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• Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.

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  Scent, Underestimated

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