Erin Morgenstern Quotes

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.

We are all stardust and stories.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

"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."

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

"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.

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

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.

To be rather than to seem.

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