Erin Morgenstern Quotes

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

I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.

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.

Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

"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.

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

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?

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

"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."

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

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.

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

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

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.

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