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Erin Morgenstern QUOTES

1 " Celia, wait,” Marco says, standing but not moving closer to her. “You are breaking my heart. You told me once that I reminded you of your father. That you never wanted to suffer the way your mother did for him, but you are doing exactly that to me. You keep leaving me. You leave me longing for you again and again when I would give anything for you to stay, and it is killing me.”
“It has to kill one of us,” Celia says quietly. "

― Erin Morgenstern , The Night Circus

2 " You will be fine,' the fortune teller says. 'There may be decisions to make and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that. "

― Erin Morgenstern , The Night Circus

3 " 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. "

― Erin Morgenstern , The Night Circus

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

― Erin Morgenstern , The Night Circus

5 " If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that. "

― Erin Morgenstern , The Night Circus

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

― Erin Morgenstern , The Night Circus

7 " She turns her head, Bailey catches her eye, and she smiles at him. Not in the way that one smiles at a random member of the audience when one is in the middle of performing circus tricks with unusually talented kittens but in the way that one smiles when one recognizes someone they have not seen in some time. "

― Erin Morgenstern , The Night Circus

8 " Follow your dreams Bailey. Be they Harvard or somehing else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself "

― Erin Morgenstern , The Night Circus

9 " Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. "

― Erin Morgenstern

10 " But you built me dreams instead... "

― Erin Morgenstern , The Night Circus

11 " I have spent a great deal of my life struggling to keep myself in control. To know myself inside and out, everything In perfect order. I lose that when I'm with you. That frightens me, and it frightens me how much I like it. How tempting it is to lose myself in you. To let it go. To let you save me from breaking chandeliers rather than constantly worrying about it, myself. "

― Erin Morgenstern , The Night Circus

12 " You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry. "

― Erin Morgenstern , The Night Circus

13 " This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it down in fancy books that get all dusty with age has lessened it, removed its power bit by bit. "

― Erin Morgenstern , The Night Circus

14 " they start in the ice garden, through the twins grow impatient with leisurely pace that celia prefers to take around the frozen trees. before they have traveled halfway through the space they are begging to ride the carousel instead. "

― Erin Morgenstern , The Night Circus

15 " My train was late that day. the day I saw you drop your notebook. Had it been on schedule we never would have met. Maybe we were never meant to. "

― Erin Morgenstern , The Night Circus

16 " Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. 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 what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift. Your sister may be able to see the future, but you yourself can shape it, boy. Do not forget that... there are many kinds of magic, after all. "

― Erin Morgenstern , The Night Circus

17 " The future is never set in stone. "

― Erin Morgenstern , The Night Circus

18 " There is the softest of sobbing as the coffin is lowered into the ground, but it is difficult to pinpoint who it is coming from, or if it is instead a collective sound of mingled sighs and wind and shifting feet. "

― Erin Morgenstern , The Night Circus

19 " 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 , The Night Circus

20 " They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic. "

― Erin Morgenstern , The Night Circus