597 Quotes by Erin Morgenstern

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose.

Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

Only a single cat notices them in this moment and though the cat recognizes this mistake for what it is, it does not interfere. It is not the way of cats to interfere with fate.

There are so many pieces to a person. So many small stories and so few opportunities to read them. ‘I would like to look at you’ seems like such an awkward request.

He sits at the bar, feeling like a failure and yet overwhelmed by all that has happened as he attempts to catalogue the entire evening. Drank rosemary for remembrance. Looked for a cat. Danced with the king of the wild things. Excellent-smelling man told me a story in the dark. Cat found me.

I am so very tired of the romance of the dead girl. Aren’t you?

It’s as if there is love and loss at the same time, together in a kind of beautiful pain.

Books are always better when read than explained.

We like to hit all of the senses,” Lainie says. “Some more than others,” Tara adds. “True,” her sister agrees. “Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.