597 Quotes by Erin Morgenstern

It began as a dollhouse. Over time, it has become more than that. A dolltown. A dollworld. A dolluniverse.

The woman laughs harder and the girl smiles. Making a witch laugh feels like a lucky sort of thing.

Every seven years each cell in your body has changed, he reminds himself. He is not that boy anymore. He is twice removed from that boy.

A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.

A show without an audience is nothing, after all.

They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, and I am simply a bird in their midst.

Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

You’re not destined or chosen, I wish I could tell you that you were if that would make it easier, but it’s not true. You’re in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that’s enough.

On this evening, Mme. Padva wears a dress of black silk, hand embroidered with intricate patterns of cherry blossoms, something like a kimono reincarnated as a gown. Her silver hair is piled atop her head and held in place with a small jeweled black cage. A choker of perfectly cut scarlet rubies circles her neck, putting forth a vague impression of her throat having been slit. The overall effect is slightly morbid and incredibly elegant.