597 Quotes by Erin Morgenstern

We are going to find each other and we are going to figure this out together. You may be by yourself but you are not alone.

How do I fix it?” Zachary asks. “There is no fixing. There is only moving forward in the brokenness.

He tells her how he worries that none of it means anything. That none of it is important. That who he is, or who he thinks he is, is just a collection of references to other people’s art and he is so focused on story and meaning and structure that he wants his world to have all of it neatly laid out and it never, ever does and he fears it never will. He tells her things he has never told anyone.

They are gods with lost myths, writing themselves new ones.

Perhaps she herself is a page that was torn from a story and folded into a star and thrown in the shadows to be forgotten.

We are all stardust and stories.

This is what his mother would call a moment with meaning. A moment that changes the moments that follow.

Staying here won’t make me happy. It will make you happy because you are insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. It’s not enough for me.

Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them.