Erin Morgenstern Quotes

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.

I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.

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.

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.

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

But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

We are all stardust and stories.

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

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

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

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

Everyone wants the stars. Everyone wishes to grasp that which exists out of reach. To hold the extraordinary in their hands and keep the remarkable in their pockets.

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.

We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.

You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des Rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus.
You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.