{"author":"Erin Morgenstern","author_id":"Erin+Morgenstern","total_quotes":59,"quotes":[{"text":"It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.","author":"Erin Morgenstern","tags":["free-will","imprisonment","independence"],"id":1964,"author_id":"Erin+Morgenstern"},{"text":"Follow your dreams Bailey. Be they Harvard or somehing else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself.","author":"Erin Morgenstern","tags":["dreams"],"id":4045,"author_id":"Erin+Morgenstern"},{"text":"They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic.","author":"Erin Morgenstern","tags":["connection","friends","unspoken-bond"],"id":11110,"author_id":"Erin+Morgenstern"},{"text":"Grow up, Bailey.'That is precisely what I'm doing,' Bailey says. 'I don't care if you don't understand that. Staying here won't make me happy. It will make you happy because you're insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. It's not enough for me. It will never be enough for me. So I'm leaving. Do me a favor and marry someone who will take decent care of the sheep.","author":"Erin Morgenstern","tags":["farming","life","marriage","marriage-advice","maturity","sibling-relationships"],"id":18337,"author_id":"Erin+Morgenstern"},{"text":"Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly sad. “There are no more battles between good and evil, no monsters to slay, no maidens in need of rescue. Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case. There are no longer simple tales with quests and beasts and happy endings. The quests lack clarity of goal or path. The beasts take different forms and are difficult to recognize for what they are. And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep overlapping and blur, your story is part of your sister’s story is part of many other stories, and there in no telling where any of them may lead. Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon, or a wolf and a scarlet-clad little girl. And is not the dragon the hero of his own story? Is not the wolf simply acting as a wolf should act? Though perhaps it is a singular wolf who goes to such lengths as to dress as a grandmother to toy with its prey.","author":"Erin Morgenstern","tags":["man-in-the-grey-suit","stories"],"id":18631,"author_id":"Erin+Morgenstern"},{"text":"He goes directly to the ballroom, making his way to the center of the dance floor. He takes Celia’s arm, spinning her away from Herr Thiessen.Marco pulls her to him in an emerald embrace, so close that no one distinction remains between where his suite ends and her gown begins. To Celia there is suddenly no one else in the room as he holds her in his arms. But before she can vocalize her surprise, his lips close over hers and she is lost in wordless bliss. Marco kisses her as though they are the only two people in the world. The air swirls in a tempest around them, blowing open the glass doors to the garden with a tangle of billowing curtains. Every eye in the ballroom turns in their direction. And then he releases her and walks away. By the time Marco leaves the room, almost everyone has forgotten the incident entirely. It is replaced by a momentary confusion that is blamed on the heat or the excessive amounts of champagne. Herr Thiessen cannot recall why Celia has suddenly stopped dancing, or when her gown has shifted to its current deep green. “Is something wrong?” he asks, when he realizes that she is trembling.","author":"Erin Morgenstern","tags":["ballrrom","magic","marco-celia"],"id":28792,"author_id":"Erin+Morgenstern"},{"text":"It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner,' Tsukiko says. 'You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.","author":"Erin Morgenstern","tags":["relationships"],"id":29136,"author_id":"Erin+Morgenstern"},{"text":"I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.","author":"Erin Morgenstern","tags":["stories"],"id":30820,"author_id":"Erin+Morgenstern"},{"text":"Do you remember all of your audiences?' Marco asks. 'Not all of them,' Celia says. 'But I remember the people who look at me the way you do.'What way might that be?'As though they cannot decide if they are afraid of me or they want to kiss me.' I am not afraid of you,' Marco says.","author":"Erin Morgenstern","tags":["kiss","love"],"id":34542,"author_id":"Erin+Morgenstern"},{"text":"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.","author":"Erin Morgenstern","tags":["magic","mundane","possibility-enlighten","the-night-circus"],"id":43134,"author_id":"Erin+Morgenstern"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":59,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}