Erin > Erin's Quotes

“I was thinking about the rubbish, the flapping plastic in the branches, the shore-line of odd stuff caught along the fencing, and I half-closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I've lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field, and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he's wave, maybe even call. The fantasy never got beyond that-I didn't let it- and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn't sobbing or out of control. I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Doing it made me feel like you were coming back, like you'd be home soon.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“I was weeping for an altogether different reason. When I watched you dancing that day I saw something else. I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go. That is what I saw. It wasn't really you, what you were doing, I know that. But I saw you and it broke my heart. And I've never forgotten.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“If I avoid looking too hard at his face, I can forget it's one I've grown up seeing my whole life. One I actually loved.”
― Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Siren Queen

“She was everything I had ever wanted but everything I couldn't have. It was difficult; every time she looked at me, every touch, every kiss, every moment I wanted to tell the world I loved her, but I knew it was impossible. It was more than the need to tell people I loved her; it was about not losing her. If I lost her, where would I be? Every day, I hoped it would be different. Every night, I dreamt we would be happy together and not judged for who we were or whom we loved. I already loved her; she was my best friend. I was just trying not to be in love with her too. And it was this fear that brought the fairy tale to an end. The greatest mistake I ever made was to give in to all the things that made me afraid.

If you want my advice, it is this: Don't write your story the way I did. Don't let fear control your narrative. Don't let fear destroy your happy ending.”
― Courtney Peppernell, Watering the Soul

“But just because the anxiety, the loss, and the struggle tell you that you are not strong or capable or deserving of dreams coming true does not mean it is the narrative you belong to.”
― courtney peppernell, Watering the Soul

“That night, I didn’t feel fear. I felt her light, and it washed over me in a way that promised I could be the sun too.”
― Courtney Peppernell, Watering the Soul

“Her lips felt like breathing fresh air. It felt like two people feeling after weeks of being numb. It felt like two people coming home to each other after months of being away. It felt like two people being found after years of being alone.”
― Courtney Peppernell, Watering the Soul

“For your love, I'd wait forever.”
― Courtney Peppernell

“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”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“There are so many moments I wish I could relive again. Especially the smaller ones. The quieter ones that we often don’t think about. Those are the moments I look back and miss the most. Us sitting on the floor in Sam’s room doing homework together, or watching movie musicals in Mika’s living room on the weekends. Or that time we decided to grab blankets and bring them to the backyard to watch the sunrise together, for no reason. We stayed up all night, talking about what we wanted to do ten years from now, waiting to see that burning red glow curve along a dark sky, oblivious to the significance of seeing another day. And oblivious to a future when one of us would be gone.”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“Ethan, do you sometimes feel like you are dreaming, all the time?"
"No, I can't say that I do."
"I'm finding it difficult to discern between asleep and awake," Tara says.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Falling out of love with someone you still like feels exactly like lying in a warm bed and hearing the alarm clock. No matter how good you feel right now, you know it’s time to go.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“I saw it now. I would never be safe. Never be loved. All my hopes, dashed-all my dreams, shattered-leaving nothing, nothing. My father was right-I didn't deserve to live. I was-nothing.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“How your sense of self-worth would implode; and the pain would be too great, too huge to feel, so you’d swallow it, repress it, bury it. Over time you would lose contact with the origins of your trauma, dissociate the roots of its cause, and forget. But one day, all the hurt and anger would burst forth, like fire from a dragon’s belly – and you’d pick up a gun.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“That's the truth. I didn't kill Gabriel. He killed me. All I did was pull the trigger.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“You get to miss him, but please don't stop living.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“He tells himself that it is not a bad life. That there is nothing wrong with being a farmer. But still, the discontent remains. Even the ground beneath his feet feels unsatisfying to his boots.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“You are a disappointment, I expected better from you. You need to do more."
"Doing more is exhausting," Celia protests. "I can only control so much."
"It's not enough," her father says.
"When will it be enough?" Celia asks, but there is no reply, and she stands alone amongst the stars.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Is it not that bad to be trapped somewhere, then? Depending on where you're trapped?"

"I suppose it depends on how much you like the place you're trapped in," Widget says.

"And how much you like whoever you're stuck there with," Poppet adds, kicking his black boot with her white one.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“There are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Trying to please someone unpredictable, someone emotionally unavailable, uncaring, unkind – trying to keep them happy, win their love – is this not an old story, Theo? A familiar story?”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Imagine it-hearing your father, the very person you depend upon for your survival, wishing you dead.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“I wondered how good it would feel to have that smile directed at me, to be the cause of a smile like that-and suddenly, my new crush on Jesse Lerner grew into a massive, inflated balloon that was so strong it could have lifted the two of us up into the air if we'd grabbed on.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“I have to look forward, into a future where you cannot be. Instead of back, to a past filled with what we had.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“I think you forsake the people you loved before, just a little bit, when you fall in love again. But it doesn’t erase anything. It doesn’t change what you had. You don’t even leave it so far behind that you can’t instantly remember, that you can’t pick it up like a book you read a long time ago and remember how it felt then.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I laughed. I got to thinking that one of my jobs in the world was to laugh at Dante's jokes. Only Dante didn’t really say things to be funny. He was just being himself.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe