Erin Morgenstern Quotes - Page 6

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• To be rather than to seem.

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  Seems

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• I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.

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  Years, Two, Letters

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.353, Random House

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• So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

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  Secret, Wells, Sharing Secrets

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.177, Random House

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

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  Life, Dream, Strange

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

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• Sting told me if I love somebody I should set them free. I doubt Sting ever loved anyone with wings. If he did he might rethink such a stupid sentiment. I suppose the point is to wait for your love to come back to you voluntarily. I wonder if there’s a difference between setting something free and letting it go? I probably did it wrong. I should stop taking advice from my radio. I worry that you’re lost. I keep a heart-shaped cage unlocked for you, out on the street where it can easily be seen. So if one day you return at least you’ll have a place to stay.

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  Stupid, Heart, Wings

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• I don’t have the time to devote to circles or covens. I have to fit things in when and where I can, in stolen moments and cups of coffee. Stirring clockwise to conjure. Widdershins to banish. There’s never enough time, and rarely enough caffeine, but I make do with what I have. Besides, cauldrons and pointy hats are overrated. Sometimes I see other customers practicing. Pouring their cream and sugar with studied intent. Stirring with purpose. I add an extra spoonful of sugar to my own coffee for them, to make all of our enchantments sweeter.

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  Coffee, Circles, Enough Time

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• “Nothing's impossible,” Poppet responds. She smiles at him and jumps, her red hair trailing out behind her as she falls.

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  Fall, Hair, Red

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

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• I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.' 'But you built me dreams instead.

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  Dream, Sea, Ink

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Aug 10, 2014

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• Do you remember all of your audiences?" Marco asks. "Not all of them," Celia says. "But I remember the people who look at me the way you do." "What way might that be?" "As though they cannot decide if they are afraid of me or they want to kiss me." " I am not afraid of you," Marco says.

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  Kissing, People, Want

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.214, Random House

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• I believe you have my umbrella" he says, almost out of breath but wearing a grin that has too much wolf in it to be properly sheepish.

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  Believe, Too Much, Umbrella

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.165, Random House

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• I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.

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  Sitting, Feels, Trapped

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.156, Random House

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• Why haven’t you asked me how I do my tricks?” Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not simply being polite about the matter. “Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better remain in the dark.

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  Dark, Wish, Matter

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.187, Random House

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• He spends the majority of the evening in the company of Celia Bowen, whose elaborate gown changes color, shifting through a rainbow of hues to compliment whoever she is closest to.

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  Color, Rainbow, Majority

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• I wished for her,” he says.

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• Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

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  Love Is, Games, Decision

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.311, Random House

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• I have read for countless people on innumerable subjects and the most difficult thing to understand within the cards is always the timing. I knew that, and still it surprised me. How long I was willing to wait for something that was only a possibility. I always thought it was just a matter of time but I was wrong.

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  Long, People, Waiting

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• It's not a real name," she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.

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  Real, Names, Want

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• We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

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  Used, Deals, Marcos

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• Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.

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  Reactions, Applause, Genuine

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• "I am already married," she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar.

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  Air, Hands, Scar

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

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• He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure, he is not sure what does.

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  Mother, Adventure, Doe

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• It's too late. It was too late by the time I arrived in London to turn your notebook into a dove; there were too many people already involved. Anything either of us does has an effect on everyone here, on every patron who walks through those gates. Hundreds if not thousands of people. All flies in a spiderweb that was spun when I was six years old and now I can barely move for fear of losing someone else.

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  Notebook, Moving, Years

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.323, Random House

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• ...He is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been before

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  Supposed To Be

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.208, Random House

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• It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.

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  Differences, Perspective, Opponents

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.311, Random House

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