597 Quotes by Erin Morgenstern

Reading a book four times in one day is perfectly normal behavior.

You will pry this Adventure Time notebook from my cold dead hands, ya ding-dong.

The weather. It’s like a poem. Where each word is more than one thing at once and everything’s a metaphor. The meaning condensed into rhythm and sound and the spaces between sentences. It’s all intense and sharp, like the cold and the wind.” “You could just say it’s cold out.” “I could.

They asked if I thought he would have done something – like jumped-off-a-bridge something – and I said I didn’t think so, but I also think most of us are two steps away from jumping off something most of the time and you never know if the next day is going to push you in one way or another.

I have literally always been the kid who believes in fairy tales but I didn’t know what to do because I wasn’t a kid, I was a twenty-something in a cocktail bar who never feels old enough to drink.

This is a significant moment, he thinks, hearing the words in his head in his mother’s voice. A moment with meaning. A moment that changes the moments that follow.

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... During the hours spent watching the sheep as they wander aimlessly around their fields, he even wishes that someone would come and take him away, but wishes on sheep appear to work no better than wishes on stars.

Everything is lit with glowing chandeliers and copious candles, so that the light is not bright but deep and warm and bubbling.

I think that’s a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.