597 Quotes by Erin Morgenstern

A book is an interpretation," she says. "You want a place to be like it was in the book but it's not a place in a book it's just words. The place in your imagination is where you want to go and that place is imaginary. This is real.

The future crashing into the present like a wave.

I love you but I will not sit here and wait for this story to change. I am going to make it change.

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

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.

Would you hide something in a story for me?" the mouselike man asked the sculptor. "There are those who seek what I must conceal and would turn the universe inside out to find it.

The parliament of owls told their decision to the stars and the stars agreed. The moon did not, but on this night she was dark and could not offer her opinion

Reading a novel, he supposes, is like playing a game where all the choices have been made for you ahead of time by someone who is much better at this particular game. (Though he sometimes wishes choose-your-own-adventure novels would come back into fashion.)

She remembers people and fairies and dragons with equal clarity.