I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.

—Erin Morgenstern in The Night Circus

About Erin Morgenstern

Portrait of Erin Morgenstern

Erin Morgenstern (born July 8, 1978) is an American multimedia artist and the author of two fantasy novels. The Night Circus (2011) was published in more than a dozen languages by 2013 and won the annual Locus Award for Best First Novel. She is a 2012 recipient of an Alex...

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I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.

—Erin Morgenstern in The Night Circus

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Dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

—Erin Morgenstern in The Night Circus

The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.

—Erin Morgenstern in The Night Circus

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Sometimes you have to know when to let hope go.

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So many people enter and leave your life. Hundreds of thousands of people. You have to keep the door open so they can come in. But it also means you have to let them go.

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