D. Morgenstern Quotes

Is magic not enough to live for?

And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.

I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister.

Comic-Con was crazy, good crazy... Five minutes after I'm done, the cast of 'Twilight' is where I was sitting.

It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.

You need to understand your limitations so you can overcome them.

I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.

Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.

Are we going to discuss whatever it is you are here to discuss instead of dancing around it?” he asks. “I was never a particularly good dancer.

Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.

And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.

Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

I tried to explain as much as I could," Poppet says. "I think I made an analogy about cake." "Well, that must have worked," Widget says. "Who doesn't like a good cake analogy?

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?” Celia asks after a while. “Very carefully,” Marco answers.

Trespassers Will Be Exsanguinated.

I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.

You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.

People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.

It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it,” Tsukiko says. “It is too familiar. Too comfortable.

People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to

We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.

You look like a ghost," Bailey says. He can think of no better way to describe it. "You appear the same way to me, so which of us is real?

“Nothing's impossible,” Poppet responds. She smiles at him and jumps, her red hair trailing out behind her as she falls.

To be rather than to seem.

...He is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been before

He spends the majority of the evening in the company of Celia Bowen, whose elaborate gown changes color, shifting through a rainbow of hues to compliment whoever she is closest to.

We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.

I wished for her,” he says.

Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.

A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.

That man has no shadow.

You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough.

But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.

...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.

I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.

Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.

Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.

I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.

I'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.

Christopher Nolan’s 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness.

I’ve long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special.

You will be fine, ' the fortune teller says. 'There may be decisions to make and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

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

That's the way it is--you have a thought, a dream, an idea in your head . . . and you do nothing to make it happen. Then one day, boom, just like that, you get up and go.