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Magic is secreand secrets are magic... -- Erin Morgenstern
We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be. -- Erin Morgenstern
A winner is not declared, -- Erin Morgenstern
The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping through your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you towards the future. -- Erin Morgenstern
Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem. -- Erin Morgenstern
Marco moves to close the distance between them, kissing away her tears before catching her lip with his own.
As he kisses her, the bonfire glows brighter. The acrobats catch the light perfectly as they spin. The entire circus sparkles, dazzling every patron. -- Erin Morgenstern
During the hours spent watching the sheep as they wander aimlessly around their fields, he even wishes that someone would come and take him away, but wishes on sheep appear to work no better than wishes on stars. -- Erin Morgenstern
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
Everything is lit with glowing chandeliers and copious candles, so that the light is not bright but deep and warm and bubbling. -- Erin Morgenstern
Though I have seen a great deal of the sights, traveled a number of the available paths, there are always corners that remain unexplored, doors that remain unopened. -- Erin Morgenstern
I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write. -- Erin Morgenstern
I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can. -- Erin Morgenstern
It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them. -- Erin Morgenstern
I think looking forward will be better than looking back. -- Erin Morgenstern
Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones. -- Erin Morgenstern
I know, I'm sorry, "Bailey says.
"What does exsanguinated mean?"
The girl smiles.
"It means draining all your blood," she says. "But they don't actually do that, I don't think. -- Erin Morgenstern
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 -- Erin Morgenstern
Behind him, the sheep, left to their own devices, decide to wander through the open gate into the field beyond. -- Erin Morgenstern
Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness. Sorrows you thought long forgotten mingle with still-fresh wounds. -- Erin Morgenstern
Thousands of miles away, in a crowded theater that thunders with applause for the man onstage, hidden in the shadows formed between disused pieces of scenery backstage, Celia Bowen curls herself into a ball and cries. -- Erin Morgenstern
Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
Is it not that bad to be trapped somewhere, then? Depending on where you're trapped?"
"I suppose it depends on how much you like the place you're trapped in," Widget says.
"And how much you like whoever you're stuck there with," Poppet adds, kicking his black boot with her white one. -- Erin Morgenstern
It frightens me how much I like it," Celia finishes, turning her face back to his. "How tempting it is to lose myself in you. To let go. To let you keep me from breaking chandeliers rather than constantly worrying about it, myself. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
Now you know about it, and you can do whatever you want to it. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
That man has no shadow," he says, as Chandresh leans over the twins to peer out the window at the empty street.
"what did you say?" Chandresh asks, but Poppet and Widget, and the orange kittens have already run off down the hall, lost in the colorful crowd. -- Erin Morgenstern
Marionettes that control their own strings. -- Erin Morgenstern
The thrill of being surrounded by something wondrous and fantastical, only magnified and focused directly at her. The feel of his skin against hers reverberates across her entire body, though his fingers remain entwined in hers. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
By the time he reaches the farm, 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 the day before. He may not be certain what any of it means, but for now he does not think that it much matters. -- Erin Morgenstern
Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
Ah," remarked one guest when the topic arose. "You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell the time. -- Erin Morgenstern
Because I do not wish to know," he says. "I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark. -- Erin Morgenstern
This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it down in fancy books that get all dusty with age has lessened it, removed its power bit by bit. -- Erin Morgenstern
Secrets have power," Widget begins. "And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. -- Erin Morgenstern
Mercury. Lead. Antimony. A cresent moon sits at the nape of her neck; and Egyptian ankh near her collarbone. There are other symbols as well: Norse runes, Chinese characters.
It is part of who I was, who I am, and who I will be. -- Erin Morgenstern
I saw in details while she saw in scope. Not seeing the scope is why I am here and she is not. I took each element spearately and never looked to see that they never did fit together properly -- Erin Morgenstern
The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves. -- Erin Morgenstern
I feel 'The Night Circus' has a complete story arc in one book. I like it as a single volume. It feels complete to me, and I wouldn't want to stretch it out into something it's not. -- Erin Morgenstern
This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it. -- Erin Morgenstern
He wants to know everything about her.
How she spends her time when not performing.
How she interacts with her audiences.
How she takes her tea. -- Erin Morgenstern
It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
It is a matter of perspective, between opponent and partner ... You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. -- Erin Morgenstern
I knew that, and still it surprised me. How long I was willing to wait for something that was only a possibility. -- Erin Morgenstern
I wanted you to have a place where you felt safe enough to cry if I could not be with you. -- Erin Morgenstern
they start in the ice garden, through the twins grow impatient with leisurely pace that celia prefers to take around the frozen trees. before they have traveled halfway through the space they are begging to ride the carousel instead. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
Dear Miss Bowen, he begins. He hopes that he will receive another letter in turn. -- Erin Morgenstern
There are no longer simple tales with quests and beasts and happy endings. The quests lack clarity of goal or path. The beasts take different forms and are difficult to recognize for what they are. And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things -- Erin Morgenstern
Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. -- Erin Morgenstern
You cannot stop things. You can only be prepared for them to happen. -- Erin Morgenstern
This is a typical Tsukiko response, one that does not truly answer the question. Isobel does not pry. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you. -- Erin Morgenstern
Misdirection is one of my strengths, -- Erin Morgenstern
We are too mercurial for our own good. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. The -- Erin Morgenstern
That is a complicated matter. The heart of the tale and the ideas behind it are simple. Time has altered and condensed their nuances, made them more than story, greater than the sums of their parts. But that requires time. The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are. -- Erin Morgenstern
The Cloud Maze.
An Excursion in Dimension A Climb Though the Firmament; There Is No Beginning There Is No End
Enter Where You Please
Leave When You Wish
Have No Fear of Falling -- Erin Morgenstern
The breaking is the easy part. The pulling back together is the problem. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
This card entitles the holder to unlimited admission
is imprinted on one side in black ink, and on the reverse it reads:
Le Cirque des Reves
and in smaller letters beneath that:
Chandresh Christophe Lefevere, Proprietor -- Erin Morgenstern
I am tired of everyone keeping their secrets so well that they get other people killed. We are all involved in your game, and it seems we are not as easily repaired as teacups. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. Poppet -- Erin Morgenstern
They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better. -- Erin Morgenstern
Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game. -- Erin Morgenstern
Now the circus is open. Now you may enter. -- Erin Morgenstern
Writing in a near frenzy is wonderful and freeing, but for me, it did not result in a nice, shiny novel. Instead, what I have is a mess. -- Erin Morgenstern
The sensation reminds him of the first snow of winter, for those first few hours when everything is blanketed in white, soft and quiet. -- Erin Morgenstern
Should you choose your questions more carefully, you may receive more satisfying answers. -- Erin Morgenstern
A show without an audience is nothing, after all. -- Erin Morgenstern
If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely write it all at once, though, so I could work on it as a whole and not broken into individual volumes. -- Erin Morgenstern
I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared. -- Erin Morgenstern
Magic is a secret and secrets are magic -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
And over the following months some of the articles are reprinted in other German papers, and eventually they are translated and printed in Sweden and Denmark and France. One article finds its way into a London paper, printed under the title "Nights at the Circus." It -- Erin Morgenstern
But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares. -- Erin Morgenstern
How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?" Celia asks after a while.
"Very carefully," Marco answers. -- Erin Morgenstern
... there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all ... -- Erin Morgenstern
As you walk farther into the room it becomes a field of endless streetlamps, the stripes repeating in fractal patterns, over and over and over. -- Erin Morgenstern
You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry. -- Erin Morgenstern
Are we going to discuss whatever it is you are here to discuss instead of dancing around it?" he asks. "I was never a particularly good dancer. -- Erin Morgenstern
I speak languages with more ease than I read or write them, she explains. It is something in the feel of the sounds. I could attempt to put them on paper but I am sure the result would be appalling. -- Erin Morgenstern
I know, interference is one of the very few things that is apparently against the rules. I do not intend to interfere, I intend to learn his systems so I can stop having to constantly manage so much of the circus. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
Figs that drip with honey, sugar blown into curls and flowers. -- Erin Morgenstern
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. -- Erin Morgenstern
People don't pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to -- Erin Morgenstern
I am already married, she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar. -- Erin Morgenstern
Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. -- Erin Morgenstern
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? -- Erin Morgenstern
Comic-Con was crazy, good crazy ... Five minutes after I'm done, the cast of 'Twilight' is where I was sitting. -- Erin Morgenstern
The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue. -- Erin Morgenstern
The snow-white angel alone remains, hovering over Tara Burgess's fresh grave, holding a single black rose in one hand. She does not move, does not even bat an eyelash. Her powdered face stays frozen in sorrow. The increasing rain pulls stray feathers from her wings and pins them to the mud below. -- Erin Morgenstern
I used to think that if she were gone, you would come back to me."
"If she were gone, I would be nothing," Marco says. "You should think better of yourself than to settle for that."
They stand in silence on the empty street, the chill of the night air falling between them. -- Erin Morgenstern
Do you sometimes feel like you are dreaming, all the time? -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
The flames are visible in the gaps between and rising slightly above. They are obscured only at the bottom, so it is impossible to tell what is burning, if it is wood or coal or something else entirely.
The flames are not yellow or orange, but white as snow as they dance. -- Erin Morgenstern
How is it better?" Celia asks. "How is anything better than anything else here? How is one tent comparable to another? How can any of this possibly be judged?" "That is not your concern." "How can I excel at a game when you refuse to tell me the rules?" The -- Erin Morgenstern
I read for someone a week ago," she says. "He was young, younger than I was when I met you. Tall in the way of someone who is not yet used to being tall. -- Erin Morgenstern
When the beaded curtain parts with a sound like rain, it is Marco who enters the fortune-teller's chamber, and Isobel immediately flips her veil from her face, the impossibly thin black silk floating back over her head like mist. -- Erin Morgenstern
You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Fancy ingredients or recipes not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better. -- Erin Morgenstern
Which tent is your favourite?" he asks.
"The Ice Garden," Celia answers, without even pausing to consider.
"Why is that?" Marco asks.
"Because of the way it feels," she says. "It's like walking into a dream. As though it is someplace else entirely and not simply another tent ... -- Erin Morgenstern
Have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person. -- Erin Morgenstern
PROSPERO THE ENCHANTER uses a pocket knife to slit his daughter's fingertips open, one by one, watching wordlessly as she cries until calm enough to heal them, drips of blood slowly creeping backward. The skin melds together, swirls of fingerprint ridges finding one another -- Erin Morgenstern
Someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
We are fish in a bowl, dear. -- Erin Morgenstern
There are no more battles between good and evil, no more monsters to slay, no maidens in need of rescue. Most maidens areare perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience,at least the ones worth anything in any case. -- Erin Morgenstern
I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do. -- Erin Morgenstern
I liked the idea of having actual magic performed as stage magic, so you could assume that it was just a trick, that something is all smoke and mirrors, but there's that, like, feeling at the back of your mind: What if it's not? -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
I have absurdly vivid dreams. -- Erin Morgenstern
There is so much that glows in the circus, from flames to lanterns to stars. I have heard the expression "trick of the light" applied to sights within Le Cirque des Reves so frequently that I sometimes suspect the entirety of the circus is itself a complex illusion of illumination" . -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
Dreams have a way of turning into nightmares. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars. -- Erin Morgenstern
All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things. -- Erin Morgenstern
A language you cannot speak yourself is not necessarily a god-awful mess, Celia says, transcribing a line of symbols into her notebook. -- Erin Morgenstern
There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. -- Erin Morgenstern
I choose to do my work to the best of my own abilities, and leave others to their own. -- Erin Morgenstern
Celia endeavors to be as helpful as she can, which consists mainly of fetching cups of tea and finding new and creative ways to assure people everything will be fine. -- Erin Morgenstern
Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that. -- Erin Morgenstern
I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer. -- Erin Morgenstern
It was all a matter of timing," she says. "My train was late that day. The day I saw you drop your notebook. Had it been on schedule we never would have met. Maybe we were never meant to. It was a possibility, one of thousands, and not inevitable, the way some things are. -- Erin Morgenstern
My train was late that day. the day I saw you drop your notebook. Had it been on schedule we never would have met. Maybe we were never meant to. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
Love is fickle and fleeting, -- Erin Morgenstern
I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
Timing is a sensitive thing. -- Erin Morgenstern
Mme. Padva greets them with the practiced disinterest she reserves for pretty young things -- Erin Morgenstern
Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks. -- Erin Morgenstern
I'm working on something that's not yet novel-shaped but is something of a film-noir-flavored 'Alice in Wonderland.' It will also very likely be a single volume story and not the start of a series. -- Erin Morgenstern
Most of the passenger cars are lined with thick patterned carpets, upholstered in velvets in burgundies and violets and creams, as though they have been dipped in a sunset, hovering at twilight and holding on to the colors before they fade to midnight and stars. -- Erin Morgenstern
Names are not of nearly as much import as people like to suppose. -- Erin Morgenstern
Tarot is just stories on cards. -- Erin Morgenstern
This is all lie, she want to say to them. The dead are not hovering nearby to knock politely at teacups and tabletops and whisper through billowing curtains. -- Erin Morgenstern
You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours - which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn't be the same at any other time of day. -- Erin Morgenstern
The way cats lose bits of fur when you pet them thoroughly. -- Erin Morgenstern
I think she's a witch," Marco says. "And I mean that in the most complimentary manner. -- Erin Morgenstern
The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it's still there, the events and things that pushed you to where you are now. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
She has gathered that the man in the grey suit whom her father called Alexander also has a student, and there will be some sort of game.
"Like chess?" she asks once.
"No," her father says. "Not like chess. -- Erin Morgenstern
They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, and I am simply a bird in their midst. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare. -- Erin Morgenstern
Have you tried the cinnamon things?" Poppet asks. "They're rather new. What are they called, Widge?"
"Fantastically delicious cinnamon things? -- Erin Morgenstern
Bailey feels oddly at ease. As though he is closer to the ground, but taller at the same time. -- Erin Morgenstern
It's a wonderful sort of feeling when people want to spend more time in a world you created. -- Erin Morgenstern
The sound of his pencil scratching against paper is as methodical and precise as the ticking of the clock in the corner. -- Erin Morgenstern
It's lovely, the way wishes are added to it, by lighting candles with ones that are already lit and adding them to the branches. New wishes ignited by old wishes. -- Erin Morgenstern
When all of this is over, no matter which one of us wins, I will not let you go so easily. Agreed? -- Erin Morgenstern
If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that. -- Erin Morgenstern
And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister's story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead. -- Erin Morgenstern
Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks [...] He wonders if the poem of the circus could possibly be bottled. -- Erin Morgenstern
The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things. -- Erin Morgenstern
Prospero the Enchanter's immediate reaction upon meeting his daughter is a simple declaration of: Well, fuck. -- Erin Morgenstern
I love that very traditional fairy tale where it's not all 'happily ever after.' I like all that old school, bloody, 'Brothers Grimm' sort of stuff. So you have all those shades of gray in there. -- Erin Morgenstern
Fearsome Beasts and Strange Creatures Wonders in Paper and Mist -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
Every eye in the crowded ballroom turns in their direction. And then he releases her and walks away.
By the time Marco leaves the room, almost everyone has forgotten the incident entirely. -- Erin Morgenstern
You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift. -- Erin Morgenstern
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 -- Erin Morgenstern
It is shallow, but it is glowing. A shimmering, shifting light cascades up through the surface of the water. A soft radiance, enough to illuminate the pool and the stones that sit at the bottom. -- Erin Morgenstern
I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality. -- Erin Morgenstern
It bothers him most at times like this, in the bottom of the brandy bottle and the quiet of the night. -- Erin Morgenstern
Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
There are tents, I am certain, that I have not discovered in my many visits to the circus. Though I have seen a great deal of the sights, traveled a number of the available paths, there are always corners that remain unexplored, doors that remain unopened. -Friedrick Thiessen, 1896 -- Erin Morgenstern
Follow your dreams, Bailey," she says. "Be they Harvard or something 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." Bailey -- Erin Morgenstern
Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I figure out what the story is ... My process is a bit messier. -- Erin Morgenstern
I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others. -- Erin Morgenstern
The future is never set in stone. -- Erin Morgenstern
Nothing is impossible. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
Bedtime stories
Eventide Rhapsodies
Anthologies of Memory
Please enter cautiously and feel free to open what is closed -- Erin Morgenstern
Herr Thiessen is always pleased when the circus arrives in his native Germany, but this time he is particularly delighted that it has arrived quite near Munich, so there is no need for him to secure rooms in another city. Also, -- Erin Morgenstern
Nothing's impossible, Poppet responds. She smiles at him and jumps, her red hair trailing out behind her as she falls. -- Erin Morgenstern
And yet I cannot be myself. You teach me all these things and then you put me here to pretend to be something I am not, while she is center stage, doing exactly what she does. -- Erin Morgenstern
Striving for uniqueness in a world of sameness -- Erin Morgenstern
I'm actually not a huge circus fan in the traditional sense, but I like a lot of the circus trappings of striped tents and caramel. I lean more towards Cirque du Soleil than Barnum and Bailey. -- Erin Morgenstern
We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. - PROSPERO, THE TEMPEST, ACT IV, SCENE 1 -- Erin Morgenstern
That man has no shadow. -- Erin Morgenstern
I suppose The Beautiful Woman Who Can Manipulate the World with Her Mind' is too unweildy. -- Erin Morgenstern
I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated. -- Erin Morgenstern
You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time. -- Erin Morgenstern
I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams. -- Erin Morgenstern
Often diners remark that they are too pretty, too impressive to eat, but they always find a way to manage. -- Erin Morgenstern
You told me love was fickle and fleeting. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
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? -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark." The -- Erin Morgenstern
The chocolates are shaped like mice, with almond ears and licorice tails. He eats two immediately and puts the rest of the bag in the pocket of his coat, hoping they will not melt. He -- Erin Morgenstern
But he doesn't open the box anymore. It sits, firmly closed, in the tree. He thinks maybe he should throw it away, but he cannot bring himself to do it. Perhaps he will leave it in the tree and let the bark grow over it, sealing it inside. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
The man billed as Prospero the Enchanter receives a fair amount of correspondence via the theater office, but this is the first envelope addressed to him that contains a suicide note, and it is also the first to arrive carefully pinned to the coat of a five-year-old girl. -- Erin Morgenstern
Each of them always gravitating toward the other. Yet still they do not touch. -- Erin Morgenstern
I don't have as tight a time limit anymore but I still write in long marathon sessions and then I won't write for a while, I'm not a write-every-day writer. -- Erin Morgenstern
I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made. -- Erin Morgenstern
Marco knows he does not have the time to push her away, so he pulls her close, burying his face in her hair, his bowler hat torn from his head by the wind ... "Trust me," Celia whispers in his ear, and he stops fighting it, forgetting everything but her. -- Erin Morgenstern
Is magic not enough to live for? -- Erin Morgenstern
It arrived only a few days ago and is still a novelty. Had it been present for longer, Caroline likely would have chosen a different dare, but the circus is currently the talk of the town, and Caroline likes to keep her dares en vogue. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
Gates Open at Nightfall & Close at Dawn in swirly lettering, and under that, in tiny plain letters: Trespassers Will Be Exsanguinated Bailey doesn't know what "exsanguinated" means, but he doesn't much like the sound of it. -- Erin Morgenstern
Trespassers Will Be Exsanguinated. -- Erin Morgenstern
I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated. -- Erin Morgenstern
I wished for her," he says. -- Erin Morgenstern
We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change. -- Erin Morgenstern
The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe. -- Erin Morgenstern
Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant. -- Erin Morgenstern
Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative. -- Erin Morgenstern
I have never lied, " Mr. Barris counters, standing as well. "I do not share what I am not at liberty to say. I gave my word and I intend to keep it but I have never lied to you. You never even asked me, you assumed I knew nothing. -- Erin Morgenstern
There is the softest of sobbing as the coffin is lowered into the ground, but it is difficult to pinpoint who it is coming from, or if it is instead a collective sound of mingled sighs and wind and shifting feet. -- Erin Morgenstern
I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days. -- Erin Morgenstern
But you built me dreams instead. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
I keep waiting for things to get back down to whelming, but they stay at overwhelming. -- Erin Morgenstern
He does hesitate, just for a moment, but he knows he will hate himself later if he doesn't at least try, no matter what might happen after. -- Erin Morgenstern
Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her. -- Erin Morgenstern
A soft breeze plays with her hair, bringing with it the mingling scent of dusty tomes and damp, rich ink. -- Erin Morgenstern
I draft quickly and then revise, a lot. -- Erin Morgenstern
You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is a dream. -- Erin Morgenstern
We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place. -- Erin Morgenstern
The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones. -- Erin Morgenstern
And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise. -- Erin Morgenstern
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? -- Erin Morgenstern
The false face had been handsome, yes, but consciously so. As though he was too aware of his own attractivensss, something she found distinctly unappealing. -- Erin Morgenstern
Whatever you wish to pay for a glimpse of your future," the fortune-teller says. Bailey stops to consider this for a moment. It is strange, but fair. -- Erin Morgenstern
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. - OSCAR WILDE, 1888 -- Erin Morgenstern
He will always choose the circus. -- Erin Morgenstern
Tsukiko sits on the floor in the center of the room, wearing a red kimono. A beating crimson heart in the pale chamber. -- Erin Morgenstern
We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
When she is unable to avoid the matter further, she makes a pot of tea -- Erin Morgenstern
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? -- Erin Morgenstern
the hint of triumph out of her voice. It -- Erin Morgenstern
Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone. -- Erin Morgenstern
It would be so simple to let go.
It would be so much easier to let go.
So much less painful. -- Erin Morgenstern
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. -- Erin Morgenstern
People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see. -- Erin Morgenstern
Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without. -- Erin Morgenstern
You need to understand your limitations so you can overcome them. -- Erin Morgenstern
Time is a peculiar thing. You'll learn that eventually. -- Erin Morgenstern
Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon ... is not the dragon the hero of his own story? -- Erin Morgenstern
There are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur. -- Erin Morgenstern
Most times things make sense, eventually. -- Erin Morgenstern
Why did you call that man Alexander? -- Erin Morgenstern
I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real. -- Erin Morgenstern
It is too difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it. -- Erin Morgenstern
