Erin Morgenstern Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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

#Pain #Memories #Disappointment

“Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.”
-- Erin Morgenstern

#Maidens #Cases #Capable

“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
-- Erin Morgenstern

#Unexpected #Finest #Pleasure

“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
-- Erin Morgenstern

#People #Wish #Cases

“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.”
-- Erin Morgenstern

#Real #Writing #Eye

“I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.”
-- Erin Morgenstern

#Dream #Thinking Of You #Lovers

“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.”
-- Erin Morgenstern

#Sister #Heart #Loss

“It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.”
-- Erin Morgenstern

#Thinking #Bars #Feels

“You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.”
-- Erin Morgenstern

#Sorry #Pain #Believe