110+ Erin Morgenstern Quotes On Writing, Friendship And Magical

Erin Morgenstern is an American novelist and multimedia artist. She is best known for her debut novel The Night Circus, which was published in 2011. Her second novel, The Starless Sea, was released in 2019. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Erin Morgenstern on love, writing, life.

Top 10 Erin Morgenstern Quotes

1. I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.
2. This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.
3. I have absurdly vivid dreams.
4. Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.
5. The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.
6. People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.
7. Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.
8. Tarot is just stories on cards.
9. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.
10. Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

Erin Morgenstern Short Quotes

• I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.
• The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.
• Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.
• The circus arrives without warning.
• I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.
• The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.
• Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.
• So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.
• You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul
• But you built me dreams instead.

Erin Morgenstern Quotes About Love

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

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

I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way. — 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. — Erin Morgenstern

...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person. — Erin Morgenstern

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

You told me love was fickle and fleeting. — Erin Morgenstern

Erin Morgenstern Quotes About Writing

It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby. — Erin Morgenstern

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write. — Erin Morgenstern

I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing. — Erin Morgenstern

Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain. — Erin Morgenstern

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 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. — Erin Morgenstern

People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless. — Erin Morgenstern

I draft quickly and then revise, a lot. — Erin Morgenstern

Erin Morgenstern Quotes About Life

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. — Erin Morgenstern

Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that. — Erin Morgenstern

We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place. — Erin Morgenstern

Erin Morgenstern Famous Quotes And Sayings

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 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. — Erin Morgenstern

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. — Erin Morgenstern

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself. — Erin Morgenstern

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

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

You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry. — Erin Morgenstern

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

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

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

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. — Erin Morgenstern

Celia." he says without looking up at her, "why do we wind our watch?" "Because everything requires energy," she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. "We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change. — Erin Morgenstern

You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. — 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? — Erin Morgenstern

I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours - which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn't be the same at any other time of day. — Erin Morgenstern

I believe you have my umbrella" he says, almost out of breath but wearing a grin that has too much wolf in it to be properly sheepish. — 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. — Erin Morgenstern

Have you tried the cinnamon things?" Poppet asks. "They're rather new. What are they called, Widge?" "Fantastically delicious cinnamon things? — Erin Morgenstern

I have read for countless people on innumerable subjects and the most difficult thing to understand within the cards is always the timing. I knew that, and still it surprised me. How long I was willing to wait for something that was only a possibility. I always thought it was just a matter of time but I was wrong. — Erin Morgenstern

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. — Erin Morgenstern

They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better. — Erin Morgenstern

The Cloud Maze. “ An Excursion in Dimension A Climb Though the Firmament; There Is No Beginning There Is No End Enter Where You Please Leave When You Wish Have No Fear of Falling — Erin Morgenstern

Marco moves to close the distance between them, kissing away her tears before catching her lip with his own. As he kisses her, the bonfire glows brighter. The acrobats catch the light perfectly as they spin. The entire circus sparkles, dazzling every patron. — Erin Morgenstern

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

There is so much that glows in the circus, from flames to lanterns to stars. I have heard the expression “trick of the light” applied to sights within Le Cirque des Reves so frequently that I sometimes suspect the entirety of the circus is itself a complex illusion of illumination” . — Erin Morgenstern

Though I have seen a great deal of the sights, traveled a number of the available paths, there are always corners that remain unexplored, doors that remain unopened. — Erin Morgenstern

I’ve missed you,” he whispers softly. The air between them is electric as he leans in, gently brushing his lips against her neck. In the next room, the guests complain about the sudden increase in temperature. Fans are drawn from colorful bags, fluttering like tropical birds. — Erin Morgenstern

And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise. — Erin Morgenstern

„I forgive you for stealing my shawl.“ She smiles as he laughs. And then she vanishes. A simple trick of distracting his attention long enough to slip out through the hall, despite the lingering temptation to stay. — Erin Morgenstern

When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different - and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks. — Erin Morgenstern

The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it’s still there, the events and things that pushed you to where you are now. — Erin Morgenstern

Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without. — Erin Morgenstern

Widge can see the past." Poppet says suddenly. "That's why his stories are so good." "The past is easier," Widget says. "It's already there." "In the stars?" Bailey asks. "No." Widget says. "On people. The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it's still there, the events and t hings that pushed you to where you are now. — Erin Morgenstern

You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time. — Erin Morgenstern

“Nothing's impossible,” Poppet responds. She smiles at him and jumps, her red hair trailing out behind her as she falls. — Erin Morgenstern

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. — Erin Morgenstern

That man has no shadow. — Erin Morgenstern

The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping through your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you towards the future. — Erin Morgenstern

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

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

Taking his time, as though he has all of it in the world, in the universe, from the days when tales meant more than they do now, but perhaps less than they will someday, he draws a breath that releases the tangled knot of words in his heart, and they fall from his lips effortlessly. "The circus arrives without warning. — Erin Morgenstern

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are. — Erin Morgenstern

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

Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated. — Erin Morgenstern

But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares. — Erin Morgenstern

Is magic not enough to live for? — 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. — Erin Morgenstern

He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure, he is not sure what does. — Erin Morgenstern

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. — Erin Morgenstern

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. — 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. — Erin Morgenstern

I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister. — Erin Morgenstern

It's too late. It was too late by the time I arrived in London to turn your notebook into a dove; there were too many people already involved. Anything either of us does has an effect on everyone here, on every patron who walks through those gates. Hundreds if not thousands of people. All flies in a spiderweb that was spun when I was six years old and now I can barely move for fear of losing someone else. — Erin Morgenstern

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

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. — Erin Morgenstern

Trapped in silence, Marco traces apologies and adorations across Celia's body with his tongue. Mutely expressing all the things he cannot speak aloud. He finds other ways to tell her, his fingers leaving faint trails of ink in their wake. He savors every sound he elicits from her. The entire room trembles as they come together. And though there are a great many fragile objects contained within it, nothing breaks. — Erin Morgenstern

Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative. — Erin Morgenstern

Kelly Link is inimitable. Her stories are like nothing else, dark yet sparkling with her unique brand of fairy dust. This is the most marvelous kind of trouble to get in. — Erin Morgenstern

And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from. — Erin Morgenstern

...the thrill of being surrounded by something wondrous and fantastical, only magnified and focused directly at her. The feel of his skin against hers reverberates across her entire body, though his fingers remain entwined in hers. — Erin Morgenstern

Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones. — Erin Morgenstern

Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks. — 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. — Erin Morgenstern

It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story. — Erin Morgenstern

Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars. — Erin Morgenstern

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be. — Erin Morgenstern

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. — Erin Morgenstern

Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant. — Erin Morgenstern

That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst. — Erin Morgenstern

Timing is a sensitive thing. — Erin Morgenstern

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. — Erin Morgenstern

The silence that falls between them is a comfortable one. He longs to reach over and touch her, but he resists, fearful of destroying the delicate camaraderie they are building. He steals glances instead, watching the way the light falls over her skin. Several times he catches her regarding him in a similar manner, and the moments when she holds his eyes with hers are sublime. — Erin Morgenstern

What happened?" Bailey asks. "That is somewhat difficult to explain," Tsukiko answers. "It is a long and complicated story." "And you're not going to tell me, are you?" She tilts her head a bit ... "No, I am not," she says. "Great," Bailey mutters under his breath... "The bonfire exploded? How?" "Remember when I said it was difficult to explain? That has not changed. — Erin Morgenstern

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

The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a smattering of color amongst the sea of traditional black. Even the light rain cannot push it down into the realms of despair. It rests instead in a space of thoughtful melancholy. — Erin Morgenstern

If I have not been completely honest with you, it is only because I know a great deal of things that you do not want to know. I am going to ask that you trust me when I tell you I am trying to make things better. It is an extremely delicate balance and there are a great many factors involved. The best we can do right now is take everything as it comes, and not to worry ourselves over things that have happened, or things that are to come. — Erin Morgenstern

Could you do such things when you were a dancer?' Tara asks her, as Tsukiko pulls a leg up impossibly far over her head. 'I would have had a much busier social calendar if I could,' Mme. Padva replies with a shake of her head. — Erin Morgenstern

Each of them always gravitating toward the other. Yet still they do not touch. — Erin Morgenstern

It's a wonderful sort of feeling when people want to spend more time in a world you created. — Erin Morgenstern

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. — Erin Morgenstern

Life Lessons by Erin Morgenstern

1. Erin Morgenstern's work emphasizes the importance of imagination and creativity, inspiring readers to explore their own ideas and find joy in the process.
2. Her stories also emphasize the power of connection and relationships, highlighting the importance of staying connected to the people and things that bring us joy.
3. Finally, her work encourages readers to take risks and embrace the unknown, inspiring them to take chances and pursue their dreams.