Erin Morgenstern Quotes - Page 8

"I am already married," she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar.

I wished for her,” he says.

Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.

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

Trespassers Will Be Exsanguinated.

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

We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.

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.

It’s said that All Hallows’ Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

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.

It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.

The sensation reminds him of the first snow of winter, for those first few hours when everything is blanketed in white, soft and quiet.

The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.