Erin Morgenstern Quotes - Page 7

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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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• Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.

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  Natural Talent, Ability, Questionable

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.18, Random House

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

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  Stills

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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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• 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.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Men, Shadow

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• Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

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  Writing, Brain, Different

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• I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing.

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  Writing, Paint, Found

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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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• I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

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  Writing, Emotional, Vivid Imagination

  "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'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.

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  Entertainment, Kind, Bigs

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• Tarot is just stories on cards.

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  Tarot, Cards, Stories

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• The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.

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  Believe, Reading, People

  "The Night Circus's dazzling, high-wire debut". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2011.

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• It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.

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  Spring, Blessing, Mind

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• Kelly Link is inimitable. Her stories are like nothing else, dark yet sparkling with her unique brand of fairy dust. This is the most marvelous kind of trouble to get in.

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  Dark, Unique, Dust

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