Erin Morgenstern Quotes

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

"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.

Not all stories speak to all listeners, but all listeners can find a story that does, somewhere, sometime. In one form or another.

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.

People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to

Strange, isn’t it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they are. It’s nice to finally have someone read stories I know so intimately.

The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.

I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.

Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.

To be rather than to seem.

But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

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.

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.