Erica > Erica's Quotes

“Strange, isn’t it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they are. It’s nice to finally have someone read stories I know so intimately.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.”
― Charles Eisenstein, Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

“To the quiet girls with stories in their heads.
To their dreams—and their nightmares.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“The problem with relationships between women is that neither one of you is automatically the wronged party, which frankly takes a lot of the fun out of an argument.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“There once was a girl clever and good, who tarried in shadow in the depths of the wood. There also was a king - a shepard by his crook, who reigned over magic and wrote the old book. The two were together, so the two were the same...The girl, the King...and the monster they became.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“We are all stardust and stories.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“But the world is strange and endings are not truly endings no matter how the stars might wish it so.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Except, in this fairy tale, the maiden has blood on her hands.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart