597 Quotes by Erin Morgenstern

The stories of a place are not easily contained.

I think people came here for the same reason we came here,” Dorian says. “In search of something. Even if we didn’t know what it was. Something more. Something to wonder at. Someplace to belong. We’re here to wander through other people’s stories, searching for our own.

You wish to sail the Starless Sea and breathe the haunted air.

But this is not where their story ends. Their story is only just beginning. And no story ever truly ends as long as it is told.

Each of us has our own path, Mr Rawlins. Symbols are for interpretation, not definition.

Do you know why I gave my daughter permission to marry your father? Because she would have run off with him regardless. Follow your dreams, Bailey,” she says. “Be they Harvard or something 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.

I couldn’t tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.

Like I’m losing my mind, but in a slow, achingly beautiful sort of way.

It’s funny how that works. How for so long a single year of difference matters and then after a certain point a year is nothing.