597 Quotes by Erin Morgenstern

As soon as there's an unquestionable truth there's no longer a myth.

It's not a real name," she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.

He wondered...how many people breathed this air that smells of smoke and honey and if any of them felt the way he feels now; unsure and afraid and unable to know which decision is the right one, if there is a right decision at all.

Widge can see the past." Poppet says suddenly. "That's why his stories are so good." "The past is easier," Widget says. "It's already there.""In the stars?" Bailey asks."No." Widget says. "On people. The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it's still there, the events and t hings that pushed you to where you are now.

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.

I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.

Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks [...] He wonders if the poem of the circus could possibly be bottled.

Celia" he says without looking up at her, "why do we wind our watch?""Because everything requires energy," she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. "We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.

Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.