597 Quotes by Erin Morgenstern

Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

...He is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been before

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