597 Quotes by Erin Morgenstern

There are stories that are more fragile still: For every tale carved in rock there are more inscribed on autumn leaves or woven into spiderwebs. There are stories wrapped in silk so their pages do not fall to dust and stories that have already succumbed, fragments collected and kept in urns.

It is part of who I was, who I am, and who I will be.

A book is made of paper but a story is a tree.

I saw in details while she saw in scope. Not seeing the scope is why I am here and she is not. I took each element spearately and never looked to see that they never did fit together properly.

Not all stories speak to all listeners, but all listeners can find a story that does, somewhere, sometime. In one form or another.

Marionettes that control their own strings.

He forgets that he was someone’s dream once, himself.

Sometimes life gets weird. You can try to ignore it or you can see where weird takes you.

It was all a matter of timing,” she says. “My train was late that day. The day I saw you drop your notebook. Had it been on schedule we never would have met. Maybe we were never meant to. It was a possibility, one of thousands, and not inevitable, the way some things are.