D. Morgenstern Quotes

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.

I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.

Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

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.

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.

There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.

The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.

Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

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

You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.

The sensation reminds him of the first snow of winter, for those first few hours when everything is blanketed in white, soft and quiet.

Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.

It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.

Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism.

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.

The circus arrives without warning.

You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.

Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.

I believe you have my umbrella" he says, almost out of breath but wearing a grin that has too much wolf in it to be properly sheepish.

If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.

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

Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.

Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.

They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.

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

Have you tried the cinnamon things?" Poppet asks. "They're rather new. What are they called, Widge?" "Fantastically delicious cinnamon things?

The Cloud Maze. “ An Excursion in Dimension A Climb Though the Firmament; There Is No Beginning There Is No End Enter Where You Please Leave When You Wish Have No Fear of Falling

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

I think looking forward will be better than looking back.

I saw in details while she saw in scope. Not seeing the scope is why I am here and she is not. I took each element spearately and never looked to see that they never did fit together properly

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.