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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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...

More quotations from Erin Morgenstern

Dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

—Erin Morgenstern in The Night Circus

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

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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Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

—Dame Edna Everage

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My great-grandfather . . . came to Washington with the Union Army during the Civil War. He stopped at my great grandmother's house to get some water and she was the one who handed him the glass of water. He put his hand over hers, and then he got off the horse, and after that, they got married.

—Helen Tenchi

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I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.

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Every hero becomes a bore at last.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don't need help.

—Glennon Doyle Melton in Warrior

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