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“I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.' 'But you built me dreams instead.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Is magic not enough to live for?" Widget asks.
"Magic," the man in the grey suit repeats, turning the word into a laugh. "This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it. Look around you," he says, waving a hand at the surrounding tables. "Not a one of them even has an inkling of the things that are possible in this world, and what's worse is that none of them would listen if you attempted to enlighten them. They want to believe that magic is nothing but clever deception, because to think it real would keep them up at night, afraid of their own existence."
"But some people can be enlightened," Widget says.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Is it not that bad to be trapped somewhere, then? Depending on where you're trapped?"

"I suppose it depends on how much you like the place you're trapped in," Widget says.

"And how much you like whoever you're stuck there with," Poppet adds, kicking his black boot with her white one.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“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.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“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.”
― Erin Morgenstern

“I wanted you to have a place where you felt safe enough to cry if I could not be with you.”
― Erin Morgenstern

“It almost contradicts itself," she says after a moment. "It's as if there is love and loss at the same time, together in a kind of beautiful pain.”
― Eric Morgenstern

“I knew that, and still it surprised me. How long I was willing to wait for something that was only a possibility.”
― Erin Morgenstern

“He wants to know everything about her.
How she spends her time when not performing.
How she interacts with her audiences.
How she takes her tea.”
― Erin Morgenstern

“It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it.”
― Erin Morgenstem

“I'm in love with her.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“[after guard dogs frozen mid-attack] 'How long are the dogs going to stay hanging there like that?' ask Yulia. 'I want to make friends with them. Otherwise, i'll be left with a latent psychological complex that's bound to affect my personality and sexual preferences.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko

“Even the ground beneath his feet feels unsatisfying to his boots.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“La gente vede ciò che desidera. E nella maggior parte dei casi, ciò che le si dice di vedere”
― Erin Morgenstern, Il Circo della Notte

“they start in the ice garden, through the twins grow impatient with leisurely pace that celia prefers to take around the frozen trees. before they have traveled halfway through the space they are begging to ride the carousel instead.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“The stillness of the tent becomes a quiet melancholy. Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness. Sorrows you thought long forgotten mingle with still-fresh wounds. The stone feels heavier in your hand. When you drop it in the pool to join the rest of the stones, you feel lighter. As though you have released something more than a smooth polished piece of rock.”
― Erin Morgenstein

“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.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“And she likes having the space to herself, the stillness and the calm sweetened with the subdued scent of frozen flowers.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Non percepiamo le sbarre finché non ci sbattiamo contro.”
― Erin Morgenstern, Il Circo della Notte

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― Erin Morgenstern

“«Ti avrei scritto anch’io, se solo avessi saputo mettere nero su bianco quello che sentivo, e che vorrei dire. Un mare d’inchiostro non basterebbe». «In compenso mi hai costruito sogni»”
― Erin Morgenstern

“Marco o trage apoi spre el într-o îmbrățiÈ™are de smarald, atât de aproape, că nu se mai vede unde se sfârÈ™eÈ™te costumul lui È™i unde începe rochia ei.
Pentru Celia, dintr-o dată, nu mai e nimeni în încăpere, ci doar el care o È›ine în braÈ›e.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des Rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus.
You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.”
― Erin Morgenstern

“- Por qué no me has preguntado cómo realizo mis trucos?
- Porque no deseo saberlo. Prefiero que no me ilumines con ese saber, para apreciar mejor la oscuridad.”
― Erin Morgenstein

“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus