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Erin Morgenstern is an American author born on July 8, 1978. Her works are known for their fantasy elements and literary quality, with her most famous novel being 'The Night Circus'. Her writing is poetic and skilled at creating imaginative story worlds.

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“Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.”

Knows Wish Dark Appreciate Willful Ignorance

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it,” Tsukiko says. “It is too familiar. Too comfortable.”

Difficult Situation Comfortable Familiar Midst

Author:Erin Morgenstern

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

People Giving Reason Pay Attention

Author:Erin Morgenstern

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

Thinking Dream Lovers Letting You Go Thinking Of You Stop Dreaming Night Circus Dreaming About You

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

“To be rather than to seem.”

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“But you built me dreams instead.”

Dream Built Night Circus

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.”

Want Life Trying Matter Together Break No Matter What Tired Controlled Night Circus Breaking Things Tired Of Trying

Author:Erin Morgenstern

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

Difficult Circus Difficult Things Night Circus

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“Timing is a sensitive thing.”

Sensitive Timing

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“You told me love was fickle and fleeting.”

Fleeting Fickle

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“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.”

Needs Sometimes Done Enough Care Right Time Right Place Night Circus

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“I think looking forward will be better than looking back.”

Thinking Looking Back Looking Forward

Author:Erin Morgenstern

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

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“But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.”

Way Dream Nightmare Night Circus

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“The circus arrives without warning.”

Warning Circus Night Circus

Author:Erin Morgenstern

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

Made Book Black Dark Sea Pages Ships Sail Ink Floats Overlapping Night Circus

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

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

Years Has Beens Two Built Letters Tents Love Letter Surrounded By Love

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

“...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.”

Persons Dream Theory

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.”

Knows Made Identity Impression Opponents

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.”

Made Done Impossible Sight Circus Feats

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

“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.”

Thinking Way Feels Doe Felt Garden Stronger Ice Hints You Make Me Feel

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“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?”

Thinking Wells Made Cake Analogies

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“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.”

Way Eye Turns Audience Middle Members Tricks Performing Her Eyes Circus Kitten

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“I cannot let a place that is so important to so many people fade away. Something that is wonder and comfort and mystery all together that they have nowhere else. If you had that, wouldn't you want to keep it?”

People Ifs Want Important Together Wonder Mystery Comfort Fades Fade Away

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“Marco knows he does not have the time to push her away, so he pulls her close, burying his face in her hair, his bowler hat torn from his head by the wind...."Trust me," Celia whispers in his ear, and he stops fighting it, forgetting everything but her.”

Knows Doe Faces Fighting Forget Wind Hair Ears Hats Torn Trust Me Marcos Burying Bowlers Celia Bowler Hats

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“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.”

Years Made Asks Wish Tree Years Ago Ears Marcos

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“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”

Ifs Thinking Way Mind Wish Sound Magic Reader Again And Again Location Routes Circus Printed Gateways Time Of Day Relays Printed Word

Author:Erin Morgenstern

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

Cases Capable Circus Maidens Night Circus

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister's story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead.”

May Stories Community Keep Going Blur Night Circus

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. And he is not in the position to do any rescuing of his own.”

Seems Girl Opportunity Wonder Position Strikes Mythology Tales Fairy Farms Fairy Tale Unfair Knights Mundane Swept Away Mundane Life

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

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

Ifs Thinking Should Would Be Gone Settling

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“Is it not that bad to be trapped somewhere, then? Depending on where you're trapped?" "I suppose it depends on how much you like the place you're trapped in," Widget says. "And how much you like whoever you're stuck there with," Poppet adds, kicking his black boot with her white one.”

Black White Depends Add Stuck Boots Trapped Kicking Night Circus Black Boots

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

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

Thinking Should Father Please Ghost Night Circus

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

“He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. “I miss you,” Isobel says as he leaves, but the sentiment is crushed by the clatter of the beaded curtain falling closed behind him.”

Moving Turns Fall Walks Behinds Air Missing Flames Prose Sentiments Candle Curtains Crushed Shiver

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

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

Real Wanted Differences Being Real Night Circus

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and symbols he does not understand at first but that become intimately familiar beneath his ink-stained fingers, formed again and again in increasingly steady lines.”

Writing Firsts Doe Book Courses Reading Lines Boys Fingers Familiar Symbols Copies Steady Again And Again Sections Ink Reading And Writing

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

“Which tent is your favourite?" he asks. "The Ice Garden," Celia answers, without even pausing to consider. "Why is that?" Marco asks. "Because of the way it feels," she says. "It's like walking into a dream. As though it is someplace else entirely and not simply another tent.”

Way Feels Dream Asks Answers Walking Garden Ice Favourite Tents Marcos Pausing Celia

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.”

Book Stories Bits Fantasy Pieces Inspired Myth Spine Instructors Bits And Pieces

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“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?”

Stories Evil Deals Hero Complexes Good And Evil Dragons Princess Night Circus

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

“Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.”

Scent Underestimated

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“Are we going to discuss whatever it is you are here to discuss instead of dancing around it?” he asks. “I was never a particularly good dancer.”

Asks Dancing Dancer

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

“Why haven’t you asked me how I do my tricks?” Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not simply being polite about the matter. “Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better remain in the dark.”

Knows Matter Certain Asks Wish Dark Havens Tricks Polite Being Polite Celia

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

“He spends the majority of the evening in the company of Celia Bowen, whose elaborate gown changes color, shifting through a rainbow of hues to compliment whoever she is closest to.”

Company Color Majority Evening Compliment Closest Rainbow Shifting Gowns Hue Celia

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.”

People Doe Two Different Different Peoples

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“I have never lied, “ Mr. Barris counters, standing as well. “I do not share what I am not at liberty to say. I gave my word and I intend to keep it but I have never lied to you. You never even asked me, you assumed I knew nothing.”

Wells Liberty Share Standing Lied

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“I wished for her,” he says.”

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“Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.”

Author:Erin Morgenstern

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

Soul Ache Circus Absent

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

“Trespassers Will Be Exsanguinated.”

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?” Celia asks after a while. “Very carefully,” Marco answers.”

Asks Answers Aging Marcos Celia

Author:Erin Morgenstern

About the Author

Born: July 8, 1978
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 270

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