Erin Morgenstern Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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.”
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“Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.”
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“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
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“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
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“Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. 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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“I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.”
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“I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart," she says. "I am, however, rather annoyed that my Tara has left me to suffer you lot alone. 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. Then at least she would be here to mock my appearance and claim to be the pretty one for a change. We have all lost our Tara, but I have lost a part of myself as well.”
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“It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.”
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“You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.”
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“This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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”
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“I think looking forward will be better than looking back.”
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“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”
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“Grow up, Bailey." "That is precisely what I'm doing," Bailey says. "I don't care if you don't understand that. Staying here won't make me happy. It will make you happy because you're insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. It's not enough for me. It will never be enough for me. So I'm leaving. Do me a favor and marry someone who will take decent care of the sheep.”
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“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.”
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“Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.”
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“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.”
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“Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.”
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“I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.”
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“Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.”
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“It's said that All Hallows' Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.”
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“I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor. There's a reason why they're sometimes called fairy lights. When the night is right, there aren't any strings at all.”
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“How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?†Celia asks after a while. “Very carefully,†Marco answers.”
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“I wished for her,†he says.”
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“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?”
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“He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. And he is not in the position to do any rescuing of his own.”
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“If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.”
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