597 Quotes by Erin Morgenstern

These things happened. Sometimes it might sound weird but sometimes life is like that. Sometimes life gets weird. You can try to ignore it or you can see where weird takes you.

Be brave,” she says. “Be bold. Be loud. Never change for anyone but yourself. Any soul worth their star-stuff will take the whole package as is and however it grows. Don’t waste your time on anyone who doesn’t believe you when you tell them how you feel. On that Tuesday in September when you think you have no one to talk to you call me, okay? I’ll be waiting by the phone. And drive the speed limit around Buffalo.

To find a key, you have to understand the lock.

You want to be in the story, not observing it from the outside. You want to be under its shell. The only way to do that is to break it. But if it breaks, it is gone.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. – OSCAR WILDE, 1888.

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 direction or another.

Sorry it’s so poetry today.

The stag’s antlers are gold and covered with candles, twisting and burning like a crown of flame and wax.

But he doesn’t open the box anymore. It sits, firmly closed, in the tree. He thinks maybe he should throw it away, but he cannot bring himself to do it. Perhaps he will leave it in the tree and let the bark grow over it, sealing it inside.