Erin Morgenstern Thinking Quotations

I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.

I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.

I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

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

It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.

I think looking forward will be better than looking back.

Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.

A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.

I don;t think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.

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.

You look like a ghost," Bailey says. He can think of no better way to describe it. "You appear the same way to me, so which of us is real?

I find I think of myself not as a writer so much as someone who provides a gateway, a tangential route for readers to reach the circus. To visit the circus again, if only in their minds, when they are unable to attend it physically. I relay it through printed words on crumpled newsprint, words that they can read again and again, returning to the circus whenever they wish, regardless of time of day or physical location. Transporting them at will. When put that way, it sounds rather like magic, doesn't it? p.369

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

I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.

I have you here, all around me. I sit in the Ice Garden to get a hint of this, this way that you make me feel. I felt it even before I knew who you were, and every time I think it could not possibly get any stronger, it does.

I tried to explain as much as I could," Poppet says. "I think I made an analogy about cake." "Well, that must have worked," Widget says. "Who doesn't like a good cake analogy?

The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.

Our instructors do not understand how it is. To be bound to someone in such a way. They are too old, too out of touch with their emotions. They no longer remember what it is to live and breathe within the world. They think it simple to pit any two people against each other. It is never simple. The other person becomes how you define your life, how you define yourself. They become as necessary as breathing. Then they expect the victor to continue on without that. It would be like pulling the Murray twins apart and expecting them to be the same. They would be whole but not complete.